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I like very much the second head and also the third, the old man as I am an old man now🙂 but looking a little bit better, I hope (?) 😄 I have a artefact, representing a man's face in my collection, dating late Hellenistic from Egypt, 105 x 70 mm. Sorry for the quality of the photos, but I have not the camera to make it sharp. Since about 4 years ago, I am making an inventory of all my collections, coins, antiquities, paintings... for my daughter. It is a lot of work, but very good for good for the mental healthy What me wonders in the first head, is the peg. I have never seen it. For this Tanagra and Myrina statues, they made combinations of all parts of the statue with different parts they had to make different statues, but this peg I never saw.

very nice and well conserved statue. Have you checked the possibility of a Myrina type with statues more lively than the Tanagra. I have only heads in my collection and show here an Tanagra and a Myrina type. The colour of the clay indicates the Tanagra type. @kirispupis these artifacts were produces all over the Greek world from the 4th century BC on for Tanagra and the second for Myrina. at left Tanagra, 53 mm, at right Myrina, 47 mm. Some for the bad photos. Both found in Sicily.

Thank you for the mails of your work. It is very interesting and I can only advise those who have amulets, to read it. It is a pleasure to read and see. albert

I think because your mask is classical style, the second has a special and unusual form : nose and face. I have a similar as yours, bought in 1972. 23 cm x 16.5 cm x 10,5 cm, Saitic period 664-525 BC

indeed, I have problems....it ends without ending by my but these are simple, and the others are more important. I contact you now,ok? albert

i looked it quickly and it looks interesting, but I think the study oy of amulets is so complicated, it is better to present it by periods with, if possible, the characteristics. I know the problems an I know it is not easy, but try and I think we'ill have a lot of reactions and we cab so create a tool for better understanding this problem. I' ll contact you by email but for the moment, i have some problems

@ambrOsie I bought this coin years ago because it was beautiful, small and very cheap. Problem is the name, for the same weight a coin is called hemiobol oder tetartemorion. For the earliest period, the weight of a hemiobol varies from 0.5 to 0.25 gr see https://en.numista.com/catalogue/aeolis-1.html#c_kyme2472

my smallest coin : a tetartemorion of Kyme, Aeolis : obverse : head of a horse right reverse : incusum 4,93 x 5,35 mm, 0,29 gr , as 12 u, 480 – 450 BC, Klein332.

for the Byzantine ring, a first view : K-------H, upstairs : T and another sign, downstairs : Y(upsilon) P(rho) D(delta). The delta can be a lambda.

I didn't know there were two variants. Here is mine. The first time I saw the coin, I was thinking it was a women on the obverse, but then seeing the lyre, I realized it was Apollo. 21 mm, 3.87 gr, 4 h.

thanks for the nice photos. They remember me the two months I lived in Rome in 1969 during my studies, but in that time, it was not possible to visit all like today. It was only not so touristic as today, as I lived it 3 hears ago with my wife a few years ago during a visit for her birthday in March.

@Tejas very beautiful nebty scarab, ou are me making jealous😀, i hope to come back on it later, because I have a surgical operation end of this month. For your sheshonq scarab, my problem is the Ra. As god, his sign is always the first, ever in the names of the kings. As you say, the spacing is very important for the Egyptians, imo the put the most important god Ra first. The reading of a scarab inscription is as easy as difficult. often there is more than one interpretation possible, I think it is always the same problem often for us. Thank you and we'll chat later. It is very interesting.

a stolen statue has to be given back, but when I see what happens if you have some connections, ....

very good idea. I usually use it to fire my stove in my second house. It is a farm house, dated 1732 with walls of 1 meters. Since I bought it in 1987, I only put a few years the electric heating. I have the sun to heath the house, right on the south with a glasses porch and the bed room above the living room, separated with wood since nearly 300 years, so no problem for the night.

Ευχαριστώ,

Maybe you can find a coin here, I think you can translate it by google https://www.fleurdecoin.eu/stock15_MUN8.html#k10

your right, I have no Greek alphabet on my computer and I use a system with most Greek letters, but not all, so I don't have the sigma C, I used the picture from the auction, because I don't like to make photo's if not necessary....I have made this for about 2000 coins from Antiquity to the end of the 19° century and I try now to do it with the fewest effort 😄 Once more thank you for the correct identification

@thanks but I am sure you have also some histories to tell collecting

FI am terminating now the second part of the work on my antiquities : Greek and Roman. On my second trip with my car to Turkey in October 1973, I was lucky to get 2 small statues near Kayseri, the ancient Caesarea. The exchange was made in the middle of ruins with two young boys. In that tine, I was thinking the 2 were fake, but now I have some doubts. First the lion : 189 mm x 57 mm x 93 mm, limestone ant the head : 109 mm x 103 mm x 87 mm, basalt ? By taking photo's now, I remarked dried sand in the mouth of the lion and in the hear of the statue what gives me doubts on my first idea. Maybe there were real ? Then I made this reasoning : Turkey was not at all a touristic place in the beginning seventies, not at the coast and still less in the middle of the country. I was exchanging with two young boys, 15/16 years and I was maybe the first stranger they saw there visiting the ruins : entrance free, free entrance, no guards as on many places in that time. The production of this objects takes a good ability and machines to produce, so there is a certain cost. I was there with my car and I knew from my first trip in 1969 it was possible to get old artifacts by exchanging, so I had a lot of ancient blankets with me. I had the two statues for four blankets... There are no sign of modern tools as far as I can see, but signs of cleaning on the forehead. So, fake or not ? Next problem : dating the statues. For the lion I am thinking second or first century BC, for the head late Roman third century. What is your opinion ? Have you a similar experience ? Thinking this way, it is

so, I have corrected the identification of the coin Lydia. Stratonicea Hadrianopolis. Nominaal : AE17 pseudo-autonome uitgifte. Voorzijde : INDEI QEA RWMH : buste van Roma met diadeem en muurkroon naar rechts. Keerzijde : IERA CUNKLHTOC : buste met onbedekt hoofd van de Romeinse Senaat naar rechts. Afmetingen : 17 mm , 3,4 gr , as 12 uur . Referenties : SNGvanAulock3182, RPC III,1774. Periode : AD 98 – 117. Staat : vz : zeer fraai+, kz : zeer fraai+. Muntatelier : Stratonicea Hadrianopolis. Aankoop : Zeus Numismatics, lot 278, 240623.

@ambr0zie you are right, I had first the same transcription for the reverse, reading the alpha as a delta, but had then problems to translate. I do not know very much of this coins, I have only about 20, most from Alexandria, but here I have a problem with the translation of 'INDEI'. Maybe it is a reference for INDI, the ancient name of the town. Thank you for the correction.

@expatyour richt, but I don't know write Greek letters here @ambr0zieyou have very nice coins, especially the Pergamon coin Congrats 😄 You are right with your commentary, for this kind of coins you need experience. Once you have it, you can make very good deals. In the beginning, I collected Roman and Roman Provincial coins, but after a short time, when I had a little more money, I bought also Greek coins. Finally now, I limited myself to Magna Greek coins and Roman Republican and eventually the the first and second dynasty, but when it is nice and cheap, then the charm is too big...

End of June, I bought three Roman Provincial coins in an auction. Usually, I do no more collect thiss coins, but the price was so cheap I could not resist. I paid 20 + 12 +8 €= 40 € for 3 beautiful coins. I think the price was so cheap because the auction house had identified the coins. First the 20 € coin : Hadrianus, AE18, Berytus, 18.4 mm, 5.5 gr, 12 h. Minted between 128-138. Obverse : IMPerator CAESar TRAIanus HADRIANUS AUGustus : laureate and draped bust right Reverse : COL / BER : between two legionary standards. Ref : BMC997, SNGCop101, not in RPC. The second is a Caracalla coin, 12 €, from Carrhae in Mesopotamia. Here Varrus died in a battle against the Parthe and Caracalle was murdered in 217. AE14, 13.7 mm, 12.1 gr, 6 h. Minted between 198-217. Obverse : IMPeratos AURelius Antoninus Pii Filius AUGustus : laureate head right Reverse : COLonis AURelia METROPOLI ANTONINIANA : veiled and turreted bust of Tyche right Ref : BMC31-35. The last one, a coin of 8 €, was more difficult to identifying. Phrygia, Synaüs, AE17, 17.2 mm, 3.4 gr, 12h, mint : Synaüs, end first-begin second century. Obverse (right) : IERA CYNKLETOC : bust of the Roman Senate right. Reverse (left) : (S)INAEI THEA ROME : bust of the goddess ROMA right. I did not find a reference in RPC, SNGCop or BMC. The name of the town was unknown to me and the location is in Phrygia, but not indicated in my Putzger atlas. Please show your 'expensive' Roman Provincial coins.

-@Tejas The transcription, given by the seller is wrong, but I have also some doubts with your interpretation of the inscription. The hieroglyphs are : Kheper Hedj setep en Ra. The name of Ra is here only once mentioned, in the name of Shoshenq twice, in the beginning and in the middle. This is very important because a name, including the name of Ra, begins always with his sign. I translate it as : The (white) crown (of Upper Egypt) chosen by Ra. The sign kheper here has no particular meaning, I know this combination for the crown of Lower Egypt. I did not check the period of the scarab, but it looks me 19-20 dynasty. @ConservatorGG I agree with @Tejas the bird can be the sign for Horus, below maybe the sign for neb : Lord. It is very difficult to read more. I think the scarab is authentic and must dated Hyksos period to 20th dynasty

For me, it is very expensive. I bought the first paperback in 2019 for about 75 € delivered in Antwerp, now the price is 106,86 €. Just after buying, I found it on the web for free, but illegal, I think now, but I took a copy of it. If I can help you any information, let me know.