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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 368669, member: 5833"]In the Symposium, Alcibiades likens Socrates to a satyr & that became one of the conventions for depicting him, with a bald head & snub nose. This one is in Oxford's <a href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/EB3CBF6D-ADF7-46AB-A1EB-5991749229C3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/EB3CBF6D-ADF7-46AB-A1EB-5991749229C3" rel="nofollow">Beazley Archive</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/Gems/SPIFF/5B5CE367868A4FE19B82785F6302947D/bc001001.jpe" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My photo is terrible, so you can't tell, but the figure on the intaglio has much less hair than the guy on the medallion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Green-Wood is within reach. Seems as though just everyone is there, so developing a strong urge to see it. Will certainly say Hello to Lola. (Whatever AJ wants, AJ gets...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie82" alt=":singing:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>At the link for Matthews' grave I gave, it mentions the irony of marble used for his family monument. His carbonation process required a source of calcium carbonate; he found it in the scrap marble left over from the building of St. Patrick's Cathedral.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 368669, member: 5833"]In the Symposium, Alcibiades likens Socrates to a satyr & that became one of the conventions for depicting him, with a bald head & snub nose. This one is in Oxford's [URL='http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/EB3CBF6D-ADF7-46AB-A1EB-5991749229C3']Beazley Archive[/URL]: [IMG]http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/Gems/SPIFF/5B5CE367868A4FE19B82785F6302947D/bc001001.jpe[/IMG] My photo is terrible, so you can't tell, but the figure on the intaglio has much less hair than the guy on the medallion. Green-Wood is within reach. Seems as though just everyone is there, so developing a strong urge to see it. Will certainly say Hello to Lola. (Whatever AJ wants, AJ gets...:singing:) At the link for Matthews' grave I gave, it mentions the irony of marble used for his family monument. His carbonation process required a source of calcium carbonate; he found it in the scrap marble left over from the building of St. Patrick's Cathedral.[/QUOTE]
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