12-01-2007, 04:14 AM
Well, I can't see ears....but if the back represents hair, as you say, then the long hair would cover ears, so perhaps you are right....especially as other vases of similar date seem to have beards painted in this way..... but I still think it somewhat ambiguous, and with such a 'stylised' form, you would need to know the artistic conventions used to be sure of what excatly is being represented....
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff