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<p>[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 8068603, member: 91461"]I recently purchased this intaglio listed as,</p><p><b>"ROMAN INTAGLIO SEAL BRONZE RING, GOD SOL IN QUADRIGA</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Roman Bronze Seal Intaglio Ring, circa 2nd.-4th.century AD. Cast in one piece. Wire hoop and tubular bezel, hand engraved with stylized image of <b>a Four Horses Quadriga driving from God Sol from behind</b>."</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>But I'm just not seeing Sol. I do see a right facing beast that could be a horse? But no Sol:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1398973[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1398971[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I keep seeing two opposing animals looking away from each other or maybe capricorns?</p><p>That it possibly Zeus looking down at his lap while making a #2<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie88" alt=":sour:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]pIgZ7gMze7A[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone have any idea what it is? And please post right and wrong answers and any intaglio that you make have<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 8068603, member: 91461"]I recently purchased this intaglio listed as, [B]"ROMAN INTAGLIO SEAL BRONZE RING, GOD SOL IN QUADRIGA[/B] [B]Roman Bronze Seal Intaglio Ring, circa 2nd.-4th.century AD. Cast in one piece. Wire hoop and tubular bezel, hand engraved with stylized image of [B]a Four Horses Quadriga driving from God Sol from behind[/B]." [/B] But I'm just not seeing Sol. I do see a right facing beast that could be a horse? But no Sol: [ATTACH=full]1398973[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1398971[/ATTACH] I keep seeing two opposing animals looking away from each other or maybe capricorns? That it possibly Zeus looking down at his lap while making a #2:sour: [MEDIA=youtube]pIgZ7gMze7A[/MEDIA] Does anyone have any idea what it is? And please post right and wrong answers and any intaglio that you make have:cigar:[/QUOTE]
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