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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 5272287, member: 19463"]Identifications are based on the best guess educated or not of the person writing the catalog. We very rarely have any ancient evidence that tells us who someone is but sometimes can guess according to popular motifs of other things found in that city. We have to keep an open mind as to what the die cutter was thinking. Apollo and Kore both are frequent guesses for heads not terribly specific and not accompanied by attributes (thunderbolts, tridents, etc.). It could also be a deity of local importance that we have not researched enough to appreciate. People who are paid to 'know' things don't seem to like to say they do not 'know' and an admitted guess published in 1900 has a tendency of becoming accepted as fact when repeated by subsequent generations. I have not studied this one and have no idea what the die cutter was thinking.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 5272287, member: 19463"]Identifications are based on the best guess educated or not of the person writing the catalog. We very rarely have any ancient evidence that tells us who someone is but sometimes can guess according to popular motifs of other things found in that city. We have to keep an open mind as to what the die cutter was thinking. Apollo and Kore both are frequent guesses for heads not terribly specific and not accompanied by attributes (thunderbolts, tridents, etc.). It could also be a deity of local importance that we have not researched enough to appreciate. People who are paid to 'know' things don't seem to like to say they do not 'know' and an admitted guess published in 1900 has a tendency of becoming accepted as fact when repeated by subsequent generations. I have not studied this one and have no idea what the die cutter was thinking.[/QUOTE]
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