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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 960818, member: 5833"]This one is a challenge to photograph, & I'll have to make more attempts to capture the back, which is 'scratch signed': F Negroni/<i>fece</i> (<i>feca</i>?)*/Roma. When you know what it says, you can find it in pic:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]204203[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Negroni got an unpleasant surprise when he worked his way out to the back of her hair; he ran out of white layer. What looks like the 'aura' (my word) on some hardstone figures is the rest of her hair cut down into the brown. She is wearing a decorative comb.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]204204[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>* Usually you see <i>fecit</i>, or simply <i>f</i>. Not knowing Latin, I don't know if this is a legitimate, grammatically correct form, for this traditional way of indicating the named individual made it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 960818, member: 5833"]This one is a challenge to photograph, & I'll have to make more attempts to capture the back, which is 'scratch signed': F Negroni/[I]fece[/I] ([I]feca[/I]?)*/Roma. When you know what it says, you can find it in pic: [ATTACH=full]204203[/ATTACH] Negroni got an unpleasant surprise when he worked his way out to the back of her hair; he ran out of white layer. What looks like the 'aura' (my word) on some hardstone figures is the rest of her hair cut down into the brown. She is wearing a decorative comb. [ATTACH=full]204204[/ATTACH] * Usually you see [I]fecit[/I], or simply [I]f[/I]. Not knowing Latin, I don't know if this is a legitimate, grammatically correct form, for this traditional way of indicating the named individual made it.[/QUOTE]
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