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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7460262, member: 110504"][USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER], to mix cliche, here are my two cents, for what they're worth. The Artuqids, and the neighboring polities who followed their example where larger- module AE was concerned, only got to be that good at imitating Roman and (--stop me for redundancy: Oops, Too Late) Byzantine prototypes because their own esthetic was that sophisticated in the first place. Witness the degree to which each 'imitation' of a given motif was visually 'riffed on.'</p><p>With that as ostensible, inexorably speculative context, I have to wonder whether sometimes, as in the case of your resonantly cool example, they were doing this same, anachronistically figurative stuff from their own prototypes --and /or, for all we know, none at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7460262, member: 110504"][USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER], to mix cliche, here are my two cents, for what they're worth. The Artuqids, and the neighboring polities who followed their example where larger- module AE was concerned, only got to be that good at imitating Roman and (--stop me for redundancy: Oops, Too Late) Byzantine prototypes because their own esthetic was that sophisticated in the first place. Witness the degree to which each 'imitation' of a given motif was visually 'riffed on.' With that as ostensible, inexorably speculative context, I have to wonder whether sometimes, as in the case of your resonantly cool example, they were doing this same, anachronistically figurative stuff from their own prototypes --and /or, for all we know, none at all.[/QUOTE]
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