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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 934530, member: 5833&quot;]I&#039;ve still been working on your guy, who I&#039;ve come to think of as Blockhead.&nbsp; The answer could lie in the Archeological Museum in Seville which, unfortunately, seems not to have a web site.</p><p><br /></p><p>Artistically, he looks more Roman than Visigoth or Moorish, but I couldn&#039;t turn up anything that explained him.&nbsp; Still, if the locals are fobbing off fakes on tourists, you would think they would replicate antiquities proper to the place.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m stuck thinking of him as something that would have been on the exterior of a home or public building simply because he just doesn&#039;t fit in with what we know of Roman interior decoration, while I can imagine him over a lintel or somehow fitting in with an angular setting.&nbsp; I still don&#039;t get why the face is flat, not the back of the head.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The underside raises alarm bells for me.&nbsp; If it was outside &amp; on a building, it would have been attached with an iron rod or something that way.&nbsp; No sign of it.&nbsp; The &#039;damage&#039; sort of looks like a chisel mark.&nbsp; Maybe it&#039;s meant to.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I said before, if this was found in the river, someone chucked it in not 5 minutes before.&nbsp; They really should have told you a story about its being found in a tomb, kept in private hands ever since &amp; now, just for you, a special price...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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