15-05-2016, 08:36 PM
In addition to Rene's points, I've also noticed something from my own experience. When I post to the forum, I like to refer to my blogpost because that's where I've taken all the effort to write everything and it feels stupid to copy it to the forum. But apparently people on a forum want to be able to see the information in-topic without having to refer to an external site - just a matter of convenience.
Also, it's right that when you offer several points, it may be worth putting them in a separate thread. I also like the visual resemblance between the deer you found and the VM goats, but since this is the "rings" thread, that gets kind of lost.
About the rings, I'm not sure whether they really have to represent the same object all the time. For example, the red one looks quite different than the others and is likely to represent something else altogether.
Diane - an ankh looks like a possibility, especially because they become more ring-like when we enter the Roman period. The "stick" gets shorter, to the extent that later copyists might, by accident or intention, re-envision it as a gemmed ring.
Just an example from the temple at Dendera, from around the turn of the millennium. An ankh is held by the man on the left and the boy in the middle being breastfed by Cleopatra.
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Now it gets confusing because there's also the Shen ring, which looks like an Ankh without the stick and is, among others, associated with Isis, who, in Greco-Roman tradition, is associated with the situla.
This would probably be a lot easier if we could read the text
Also, it's right that when you offer several points, it may be worth putting them in a separate thread. I also like the visual resemblance between the deer you found and the VM goats, but since this is the "rings" thread, that gets kind of lost.
About the rings, I'm not sure whether they really have to represent the same object all the time. For example, the red one looks quite different than the others and is likely to represent something else altogether.
Diane - an ankh looks like a possibility, especially because they become more ring-like when we enter the Roman period. The "stick" gets shorter, to the extent that later copyists might, by accident or intention, re-envision it as a gemmed ring.
Just an example from the temple at Dendera, from around the turn of the millennium. An ankh is held by the man on the left and the boy in the middle being breastfed by Cleopatra.
Now it gets confusing because there's also the Shen ring, which looks like an Ankh without the stick and is, among others, associated with Isis, who, in Greco-Roman tradition, is associated with the situla.
This would probably be a lot easier if we could read the text