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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 922425, member: 5833&quot;]Hello, Dundun.&nbsp; It does look like an architectural element, rather than something that just sat around looking pretty.&nbsp; I&#039;m completely ignorant of building ornamentation from that time &amp; place, so do not understand why the face &amp; side of head would be flat while the top &amp; back are curved.&nbsp; What is the bottom like?</p><p><br /></p><p>This I doubt very much:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I see no evidence this ever spent time in running water.</p><p><br /></p><p>He&#039;s not out of keeping with typical depictions of Jove:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]201765[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But any other figure typically depicted as an old man, e.g., gods Neptune &amp; Cronus, legendary kings, the personifications of major rivers.</p><p><br /></p><p>The world is so full of fake antiquities, the approach I take is to always assume something is fake, no matter what I have been told about it, then try to prove that it is not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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