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by agesilaos
Tue Mar 08, 2016 8:47 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
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Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

Conversely, it could be the remains of an old fire from years before any building just caught up in the making of the covered tomb and has absolutely no significance. Do you have a link to the data? Or was it in a journal? It's always interesting to see. Forty year old wood might crop up in a built ...
by agesilaos
Tue Mar 08, 2016 2:15 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
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Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

I am more inclined to see an artifact of the way the mosaic was laid; the floor was completed in two stages, probably to allow continued access to the work continuing in the deeper chambers. The men worked upto a straight edge, like a plank, say, then once the matrix had set and it could be walked o...
by agesilaos
Tue Mar 08, 2016 9:23 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
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Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

The Faseneri is also a 1st Century BC Roman copy and so a really flawed comparandum. As for the technique of divining from an empty space just what once stood there I am in awe (or not!).The Karyatids stand c12ft from the floor, the head is from a 3.5m statue (10ft) maybe he was mounted on a Shetlan...
by agesilaos
Mon Mar 07, 2016 9:11 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
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Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

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I think this is the head from Schloss Faseneri; Corsoneeds to lay off the mushrooms!
by agesilaos
Mon Mar 07, 2016 4:04 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
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Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

Hephaistion pre-deceased Alexander and could, therefore, not be his successor even in Alexander's fevered mind and his relevance to anyone died with Alexander. Kassandros had no need to trouble himself with the dead chiliarch. Had he wished a damnatio memoriae it is strange that the only attested cu...
by agesilaos
Sun Mar 06, 2016 9:13 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
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Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

I understand dendro-chronology but they cite C14 which means destruction of the sample, and a much smaller piece than viable for tree-ring analysis, we must still consider that the frieze may be later from a different building; this does not stop the archaeologists' pronouncement being better for th...
by agesilaos
Sun Mar 06, 2016 8:24 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
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Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

The helmet is slightly different but he is certainly right that the type is not attested as early as the late fourth century but the earliest archaeological example is c. 280 though quite why I cannot say as the info is from an auction catalogue rather than a paper :( A cavalry shield is more diagno...
by agesilaos
Sun Mar 06, 2016 6:09 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
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Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

To be fair, Gepd, the fact that you saw the link and they failed to (assuming they are familiar with the Pydna monument!) only makes it worse; these archaeologists should have frizzy wigs and big red noses, and just like clowns they are not funny :lol: What is funny is that they chose to suppress th...
by agesilaos
Sun Mar 06, 2016 4:05 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 542289

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

Amazing, the Pydna monument shows exactly the same shield, they show it and cannot make the connection :roll: Somewhere I read that they were comparing the horse and tree on this sculpture and claiming stylistic affinities with the Alexander mosaic and the hunt frieze on Vergina II, I do not think I...
by agesilaos
Sun Mar 06, 2016 12:42 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
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Views: 542289

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

Andrew I think it is perfectly logical to describe your position as Amyntoros has based on the previous two posts A statue of Alexander the Great from Alexandria, where he was remembered as the Son of the Serpent. And The matter is not controversial. There is a whole class of these Alexander statuet...
by agesilaos
Sat Mar 05, 2016 4:16 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
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Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VpWbBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA131&lpg=PA131&dq=alexander+aegis+statuettes&source=bl&ots=_gSxCuYf7E&sig=F1xG691gRVK0w3YJ8_LKWQ1z3Uw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjs7-r44qnLAhXJTBQKHSGDD7QQ6AEIPzAJ#v=onepage&q=alexander%20aegis%20statuettes&f...
by agesilaos
Fri Mar 04, 2016 7:59 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
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Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

Your headless statue looks more likely to be Orpheus to me, what makes you think Alexander and whence do you get 'the son of the serpent'? Daniel Ogden uses it as a chapter title but never seen it in the ancient literature. Even if the Kasta relief was intended as Alexander, he cannot have 3rd C acc...
by agesilaos
Fri Mar 04, 2016 7:09 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 542289

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

There are certainly later depictions such as this, now lost plaque from Pergamon conze_1913-bd_1-text_2-pg_251.png Don't get me wrong, I have much respect for Hatzoupoulos, not least because he ' shows all his workings' and thus saves any one who takes a different view a great deal of work hunting d...
by agesilaos
Fri Mar 04, 2016 5:53 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 542289

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

Nope, just his cloak behind and his left arm ahead; you can make out the pteruges. Nor did cavalry fight with the hoplite shield (there are depictions of men on horses with them but they are mounted hoplites travelling to the action) the shield would be too heavy for mounted use and liable to beat t...
by agesilaos
Fri Mar 04, 2016 3:42 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 542289

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

Shields are not thought to have been used by Greek or Macedonian cavalry before the Gallic invasions of the 270s, with the exception of Tarantine horsemen who do appear at Gaza in 312, but not in Alexander's army. The spine of the shield is also celtic.