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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 411750, member: 2844&quot;]Winas, could we see pictures of the sides and bottom, please?</p><p><br /></p><p>I see the hole, it is just more at an angle than on the other examples.</p><p>I agree, many of these are fake, both in terracotta and bronze.</p><p>Given the fact that there is a lot of patination and no areas where it is worn smooth, it could be a fake. Fake &#039;ancient&#039; artifacts have been made in the Middle East ever since the beginning of tourism.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the kind of wear usually seen on Roman bronze oil lamps, you can see it has a smooth, tactile quality, and complex, deep-layered patination:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com%2Flot-images.atgmedia.com%2FSR%2F34982%2F2915624%2F111-20141014144340_540x360.jpg&amp;sp=f346d9ab506c82ec3c1e038d566c0002" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yours doesn&#039;t look used, just patinated (with a hole). It looks like the patination is only in the top layer of the bronze:</p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/img-20180904-wa0026-jpg.143422/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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