10-11-2004, 07:16 PM
On the subject of that Egyptian wood carving - I found this recently: a 6th century ivory box from Alexandria, now in the British Museum:<br>
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<img src="http://www.stmina-monastery.org/images/Pyxis1.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
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...which shows another of those 'V Macedonia' shield designs - whatever they were, they must have been common in Egypt at that point (unless this, the wood carving and the other ivory tablet all come from the same place, I suppose!) <p></p><i></i>
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<img src="http://www.stmina-monastery.org/images/Pyxis1.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
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...which shows another of those 'V Macedonia' shield designs - whatever they were, they must have been common in Egypt at that point (unless this, the wood carving and the other ivory tablet all come from the same place, I suppose!) <p></p><i></i>
Nathan Ross