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<p>[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 9504915, member: 78949"]<font size="4">Yes, sure it is closer. To me these do not look "ours" (as I said, our traditions are very close with them in everything, and we also have filigree in our folk crafts), they look Middle Eastern (as the TS suggested), there are Christian minority groups in the Middle East, too - copts in Egypt and Maronites in Lebanon, for instance. And the marks look to me Arabic or sort of.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 9504915, member: 78949"][SIZE=4]Yes, sure it is closer. To me these do not look "ours" (as I said, our traditions are very close with them in everything, and we also have filigree in our folk crafts), they look Middle Eastern (as the TS suggested), there are Christian minority groups in the Middle East, too - copts in Egypt and Maronites in Lebanon, for instance. And the marks look to me Arabic or sort of.[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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