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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 614803, member: 5833&quot;]She&#039;s so pretty!&nbsp; Wreathed in ivy, so a maenad/bacchante or Ariadne, the wife of Dionysus/Bacchus.&nbsp; That particular hairdo is especially associated with Ariadne.&nbsp; See:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/D4913B30-F3E7-4BBE-B257-7722293460FD" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/D4913B30-F3E7-4BBE-B257-7722293460FD" rel="nofollow">http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/D4913B30-F3E7-4BBE-B257-7722293460FD</a></p><p><br /></p><p>She was cut using a section of helmet shell from under a &#039;horn&#039; of the shell to get that deep curvature.&nbsp; I can&#039;t tell from the photos whether the clasp has been replaced.&nbsp; It is from well into the 20th century, but the cameo &amp; the rest of the mount look more turn of the century.</p><p><br /></p><p>Numbers scratched into the back can be put there as inventory numbers by dealers or pawnbrokers.&nbsp; You sometimes see cameos described as being &#039;signed&#039;, only to learn from photos that there is a number this way, not initials or anything that could reliably construed as having been placed there by the cutter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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