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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 891666, member: 5833&quot;]Ooh, I love him!&nbsp; It&#039;s too bad more really good cutters seem never to have explored the possibilities of this material.</p><p><br /></p><p>A little speed research found this:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/41161CF0-F711-485C-8761-733A4541C849" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/41161CF0-F711-485C-8761-733A4541C849" rel="nofollow">http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/41161CF0-F711-485C-8761-733A4541C849</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This type of cap, a <i>pilos</i>, is an attribute of Odysseus in conventional depictions, but this guy is too youthful looking for the wily guy from Ithaca.&nbsp; That said, it doesn&#039;t necessarily mean he has no specific identity.&nbsp; I never got a reply the one time I asked what exactly &#039;unpublished Tassie&#039; means at the Archive.&nbsp; What I have observed is that they are Tassie impressions they have that are not part of the set that is matched up with the catalogue, that seem to have had descriptions written by undergrads in classics whose job was to describe what they saw, e.g., young man with pilos, not to make a definitive ID, although there are often tentative suggestions, followed by a question mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>To pursue further, the next step would be to start thinking of who it could be, Paris, Odysseus or&nbsp; STOP THE PRESSES!&nbsp; Had one more thought about whom to add to the list, who would wear a pilos like Odysseus but be younger, &amp; it occurred to me that his son Telemachus might reasonably be indicated that way &amp;, tada!</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/A0DA01DF-516D-46AE-ADC4-48B386D83370" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/A0DA01DF-516D-46AE-ADC4-48B386D83370" rel="nofollow">http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/A0DA01DF-516D-46AE-ADC4-48B386D83370</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In this case, &#039;unpublished&#039; is correct; this impression is not in the catalogue.&nbsp; OK, we can all relax now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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