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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Box of Indus valley pots. 3300-1300 BC.  You will never soar like an eagle if you hang around with turkeys.....
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Moderator
 United States
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Topcat, I've got a Megalodon tooth as well..almost that big :-)
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United States
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I am really enjoying seeing all these ancient artifacts. Wish I had some to show.
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Pillar of the Community
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Vermontensium - Congratulations. The really big ones are hard to get. I have 4 or 5 teeth but that one is the biggest I have. I should have put an 'ordinary' sharks tooth in the photo for comparison.
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Pillar of the Community
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M.D. My Indus Civilization bowl (with chip) AND a stone spear or arrow point together with the 1980 Susan B. Anthony dollar.  |
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United States
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Those are nice!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Man these items are awesome. I am waiting for Echizento to post his Horimono!
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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these sarcophagus is very interesting.Do you have a date for it ? Is it possible to have better photos of the decoration ? In fact , it is a part of a coffin , everybody calls it a sarcophagus , but scientific is a sarc. the stone box in wich the coffin is placed . albert
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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beside my coincollection , I have also a collection of Egyptian scarabs,wich give me the same pleasure .Like coins , it learns a lot about history,gives a lot of work to date and translate , but once done , there is pleasure to look at a nice thing , a thing of beauty is a joy for ever . Here one of my collection. it is not the most beautiful , but one of the most interesting ,dating from the second intermediate period : 1776-1514 BC , XIIIth dynasty to the Hyksos period .The base is engraved with a scarab flanked by two ureai,cobras.This give us te name of the king : Ra-kheper :two cobras = Ra the sungod , the beetle = kheper .This king is only know by scarabs .For the history : the Egyptian word for beetle is kheper ,in German it is Käfer and in Dutch : kever .Allways the same word .The datation is based on the style , the name indicates only the earliest date possible .albert    |
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Pillar of the Community
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Very nice and indeed, as you say, "a thing of beauty" despite the fact that it is based on the form of a dung beetle. The impression is great...I'm glad you included that here.
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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for the Egyptians the dung beetle was a god , he was the beginning and is often represented pushing a sunglobe ,the verb kheper means to become . albert
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Pillar of the Community
Netherlands
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very interesting artifacts, I only have an 18th century map of france so I cant contribute to this topic!
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Pillar of the Community
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Here is some hair from a Woolly Mammoth (Siberia) that is 40,000 years old.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I hope that no one minds me resurrecting this old thread, as it has some really nice and unusual items. Here are a couple of curios in my collection.  A Roman bronze ring seal of a galley.  Sasanian dome seal of agate. (male bust left with script) 26mm x 17mm  And a small glass Roman bottle found in England. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thanks for reviving this old thread, Jim!
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