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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 651605, member: 5833"]<a href="https://www.hofer-antikschmuck.de/schmuckstuecke/schoene-muschel-kamee-mit-darstellung-der-hebe-italien-um-1930/a-593107/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.hofer-antikschmuck.de/schmuckstuecke/schoene-muschel-kamee-mit-darstellung-der-hebe-italien-um-1930/a-593107/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hofer-antikschmuck.de/schmuckstuecke/schoene-muschel-kamee-mit-darstellung-der-hebe-italien-um-1930/a-593107/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The translator I use is not quite as bad, but does still have her as a Munchkin serving jello:</p><p><br /></p><p>In this offer, we are pleased to present you a beautiful brooch that was certainly a souvenir from Italy in the first decades of the 20th century. The version of the highly oval piece of jewelery is made of brass and silver and shows from the front a finely cut gems of bicoloured shell. Shown is a scene of classical mythology: We see the youthful Hebe in peaceful coexistence with the godfather Zeus in the shape of an eagle. In a powerful cut the Gemmenschneider Hebe has held as the goddess of youth in their most important task in the heaven of the gods: It is Munchkin of the Olympian gods and responsible for the preparation of the food. Here she serves her father Zeus a bowl of jello Ambrosia and holds a carafe of nectar in his arms. Hebe sits on a wall, Zeus as a mighty eagle approaches in flight and feeds on the Ambrosia. In Homer, nectar and ambrosia occur regularly in the Iliad and the Odyssey as the immortalizing food of the gods. In the course of the mythological tradition Hebe is said to have been replaced after their marriage with Heracles of the Trojan Prince Ganymede in this task, he then cupbear the gods.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 651605, member: 5833"][URL]https://www.hofer-antikschmuck.de/schmuckstuecke/schoene-muschel-kamee-mit-darstellung-der-hebe-italien-um-1930/a-593107/[/URL] The translator I use is not quite as bad, but does still have her as a Munchkin serving jello: In this offer, we are pleased to present you a beautiful brooch that was certainly a souvenir from Italy in the first decades of the 20th century. The version of the highly oval piece of jewelery is made of brass and silver and shows from the front a finely cut gems of bicoloured shell. Shown is a scene of classical mythology: We see the youthful Hebe in peaceful coexistence with the godfather Zeus in the shape of an eagle. In a powerful cut the Gemmenschneider Hebe has held as the goddess of youth in their most important task in the heaven of the gods: It is Munchkin of the Olympian gods and responsible for the preparation of the food. Here she serves her father Zeus a bowl of jello Ambrosia and holds a carafe of nectar in his arms. Hebe sits on a wall, Zeus as a mighty eagle approaches in flight and feeds on the Ambrosia. In Homer, nectar and ambrosia occur regularly in the Iliad and the Odyssey as the immortalizing food of the gods. In the course of the mythological tradition Hebe is said to have been replaced after their marriage with Heracles of the Trojan Prince Ganymede in this task, he then cupbear the gods.[/QUOTE]
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