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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 1113492, member: 5833&quot;]I do hope not. There is disagreement about who exactly this is; one camp holds it is Ajax, the other says Menelaus.&nbsp; At least they agree it is one of the heroes of the Trojan War.&nbsp; He has been done many times as a gem, e.g.:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/D4C0A7B5-3497-4B20-8CFE-6482ABDB7B96" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/D4C0A7B5-3497-4B20-8CFE-6482ABDB7B96" rel="nofollow">http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/D4C0A7B5-3497-4B20-8CFE-6482ABDB7B96</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Cutter of this one did a good job using the horn of the shell.&nbsp; These can truly pop out at you when seen, as they were meant to be, from the front, but do look a bit odd from the side.&nbsp; This one is quite extreme.&nbsp; These are all of the type, a bit more subtle.&nbsp; Apollo is at the lower left:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]211156[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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