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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6227157, member: 110504&quot;]With apologies, [USER=98035]@Finn235[/USER], all there is to do is to repeat your shout-out to [USER=83232]@Muhammad Niazi[/USER], who has your level of fluency in languages which are vaguely</p><p>(--Please, consider the source!) in this neighborhood. </p><p>...Except, it really made me sit up in my chair, to see the level of stylization of the Sassanian prototypes, in what, for some of us, is a profoundly horizon-expanding chronological <i>and </i>geographic context. </p><p>...Where this sort of phenomenon is concerned, I start to think that some of the wonder, even on an esthetic level, is how motifs travelled such distances, both of time and place.&nbsp; Remaining significant, on one level or another.&nbsp; (--Cultural?Economic? Both?). </p><p>In this sort of context, &#039;stylization&#039; is very emphatically a &#039;value-neutral&#039; term --as you seem to broadly imply (!).&nbsp; Eurocentric collectors get the Celtic and early medieval series for similar effects.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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