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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 921604, member: 2844&quot;]I considered a Visigoth origin as well, but it doesn&#039;t look like any Visigoth carving I have seen. No beards or long curly hair.</p><p>Searching the www I came across these, which is the general style I remember, and much like other Western European carvings of the period:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://arsartisticadventureofmankind.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/capitel-san-pedro-de-la-nave-1.jpg?w=735&amp;h=513" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Different texture of the hair as well:</p><p><img src="https://arsartisticadventureofmankind.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/capitel-san-pedro-de-la-nave-2.jpg?w=728&amp;h=606" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://arsartisticadventureofmankind.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/pre-romanesque-visigothic-art/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://arsartisticadventureofmankind.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/pre-romanesque-visigothic-art/" rel="nofollow">https://arsartisticadventureofmankind.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/pre-romanesque-visigothic-art/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Two Visigoth reliefs stolen from a church near Burgos (and Dutch art detective Arthur Brand, who located them). Again that striped hair texture, this time with cross-hatching which could suggest a braided hairstyle:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/68a7V3jvMMTrBpyopHv29B-320-80.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://www.livescience.com/64591-priceless-visigoth-art-rotted-in-english-garden.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.livescience.com/64591-priceless-visigoth-art-rotted-in-english-garden.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.livescience.com/64591-priceless-visigoth-art-rotted-in-english-garden.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1.4263745.1548169285!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_620/image.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/indiana-jones-of-art-finds-stolen-spanish-carvings-in-english-garden-1.4263716" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/indiana-jones-of-art-finds-stolen-spanish-carvings-in-english-garden-1.4263716" rel="nofollow">https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/indiana-jones-of-art-finds-stolen-spanish-carvings-in-english-garden-1.4263716</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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