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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 4757918, member: 84744&quot;]Thanks for the interesting link, [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER]!&nbsp; As a result I&#039;m coming around to the hair view.&nbsp; The comparisons with Arethusa on the Syracusan tets and especially the archaic owls are particularly convincing, at least that the original intention was to represent hair. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some more archaic tets.&nbsp; On some, as in the first example, both the loops on the neck and the waves on the forehead are represented by dots - looks like the same hair.&nbsp; On others, they&#039;re both lines.&nbsp; Then there are some combos, with dots, lines, and dotty lines in various places.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1160831[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems the engravers were experimenting with lots of different styles, and something eventually solidified.&nbsp; Here&#039;s an experiment that seems to put earrings all along the forehead!</p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/30/6461/6669627.m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It may be that, decades after the design solidified, the new engravers didn&#039;t really know what they were depicting, they were just following a pattern - not uncommon for designs that last longer than a century.&nbsp; (So Z: I think we should promote our examples as &quot;lacking any ambiguous design elements.&quot;&nbsp; A feature, not a bug! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>For those curious about the sources &amp; original auction details for the above coins (none of which are mine):</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1175086" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1175086" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1175086</a> (a truly amazing example!)</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5877737" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5877737" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5877737</a></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2834701" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2834701" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2834701</a></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4292293" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4292293" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4292293</a></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4870629" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4870629" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4870629</a></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6669627" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6669627" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6669627</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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