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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 9920871, member: 8267"]Context is everything with objects like this. Where did you get it? What were you told about it? What type of stone is it? (You should find a geologist who can examine it to identify the mineral composition.) What type of toolmarks are there?</p><p><br /></p><p>There are only so many ways that the human face can be represented. Style alone may not be determinative. Google lens is not good at identifying faces.</p><p><br /></p><p>This corbel from Kilpeck Church in Herefordshire, England, "has the same features" - </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]498295[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://sheelanagig.org/kilpeck/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://sheelanagig.org/kilpeck/" rel="nofollow">https://sheelanagig.org/kilpeck/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 9920871, member: 8267"]Context is everything with objects like this. Where did you get it? What were you told about it? What type of stone is it? (You should find a geologist who can examine it to identify the mineral composition.) What type of toolmarks are there? There are only so many ways that the human face can be represented. Style alone may not be determinative. Google lens is not good at identifying faces. This corbel from Kilpeck Church in Herefordshire, England, "has the same features" - [ATTACH=full]498295[/ATTACH] [URL]https://sheelanagig.org/kilpeck/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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