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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1113492, member: 5833"]I do hope not. There is disagreement about who exactly this is; one camp holds it is Ajax, the other says Menelaus. At least they agree it is one of the heroes of the Trojan War. 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. 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. This one is quite extreme. These are all of the type, a bit more subtle. Apollo is at the lower left:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]211156[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1113492, member: 5833"]I do hope not. There is disagreement about who exactly this is; one camp holds it is Ajax, the other says Menelaus. At least they agree it is one of the heroes of the Trojan War. He has been done many times as a gem, e.g.: [URL]http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/D4C0A7B5-3497-4B20-8CFE-6482ABDB7B96[/URL] Cutter of this one did a good job using the horn of the shell. 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. This one is quite extreme. These are all of the type, a bit more subtle. Apollo is at the lower left: [ATTACH=full]211156[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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