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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 9577133, member: 5833&quot;]For heaven&#039;s sake, don&#039;t get any ammonia on the cameo!&nbsp; My personal preference in this is to clean the cameo itself until it looks like it just left the cutter&#039;s hand, maybe clean off the worst oxidation on the mount &amp; leave the rest to show its age.</p><p><br /></p><p>She is helmet shell, &amp; I would also go with Erato, although it is unusual to wreathe her with ivy.&nbsp; If the lyre had not been there I would have thought Ariadne or an unnamed bacchante.&nbsp; Apollo, Erato&#039;s boss, is sometimes shown with ivy &amp; Antinous too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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