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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 560680, member: 5833&quot;]I&#039;m pretty confident it&#039;s stone.&nbsp; What I suspect about the metal is that the ring shank is low grade gold; the innermost bezel is some kind of base metal; and outer part could be anything from low karat gold to pinchbeck.&nbsp; I believe the cameo started life as a brooch, now made into a ring.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/71UAAOSwa9dcm~IM/s-l1600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The composition does look very like a gryllus/gryllos.&nbsp; But</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/43F63345-C4A1-4F40-BFCD-3B34C730B9AF" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/43F63345-C4A1-4F40-BFCD-3B34C730B9AF" rel="nofollow">http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/43F63345-C4A1-4F40-BFCD-3B34C730B9AF</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s driving me mad.&nbsp; I know I have seen this composition a number of times, but haven&#039;t been able to find it anywhere in the Beazley Archive.&nbsp; It came back to me that I think I&#039;ve seen the guy IDed as Cecrops, another major figure in the founding of Athens, but am only finding this:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/B45A09DF-A8D2-4A7A-9357-F6DD8B3417DA" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/B45A09DF-A8D2-4A7A-9357-F6DD8B3417DA" rel="nofollow">http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/B45A09DF-A8D2-4A7A-9357-F6DD8B3417DA</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A very different looking character.</p><p><br /></p><p>Profiles overlapping, facing the same direction: jugate.&nbsp; Heads back to back: janate.&nbsp; Profiles facing each other: confronted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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