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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 383281, member: 5833&quot;][USER=2844]@Any Jewelry[/USER]&nbsp;&nbsp; Just for you:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]132487[/ATTACH]</p><p>For some reason an eminent glyptics scholar whom I very much respect &amp; love disagrees, without proposing an alternative, but I think this has to be Vulcan getting drunk in his forge, and my best interpretation of the entire scene is that it is part of the story of how Vulcan, angry at his mother Juno, who rejected him, devises a golden throne to which she is stuck fast after sitting down on it.&nbsp; When pleading does not persuade the smith to undo his work, Bacchus is sent to get him drunk.&nbsp; In his stupor, Vulcan is then conveyed to Juno&#039;s palace on an ass, where he releases her.&nbsp; The female figure in the background is a bit of a puzzle.&nbsp; I work her in as representing Juno&#039;s fury; she appears to be holding thunderbolts in her hand, a symbol of wrath.&nbsp; Until I find the primary art work, will have to remain tentative.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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