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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 9598509, member: 5833&quot;]I think maybe you are meant to have that conflation of the god &amp; his servant.&nbsp; Zeus is the eagle; the eagle is Zeus.&nbsp; It is quite a standard depiction of the head of Zeus, Otricoli notwithstanding.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I can ascertain, the original is a cameo by Giovanni Dies, who was active in the first half of the 19th century.&nbsp; It is #48 in Tomo VIII of La Collezione Paoletti, a huge collection of glass paste impressions of engraved gems.</p><p><br /></p><p># Zeus&nbsp; eagle&nbsp; ouroboros&nbsp; Dies&nbsp; Paoletti[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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