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Thanks, that's more stunning than the ink drawing made of it. Far more detail than what I could see in the drawing.

• lostlogin 5y ago
  In particular, the dead guy and the arm holding the sword. It uses light reflections very effectively.
  • ch4s3 5y ago
    The impression is even cooler imho[1]. [1]http://www.griffinwarrior.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Hesperia-fig3-wm-400x284.png http://www.griffinwarrior.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Hes...
    • lostlogin 5y ago
      What is that? An impression would be inverted. If the impression was filled (used as a mould) it would match the original. Is the image reversed?
      • SamBam 5y ago
        Unsure what you mean. It is inverted. It's been pressed into something. The frame is pressed inward, and the bas-relief figures come outward.
        • lostlogin 5y ago
          I think I’m not seeing either the original or the copy correctly, both look to me to have figures that come outward, and the copy is also flipped left to right. Surely a straight copy made by pressing the original into something would have the dead body on the left, with their features going into the medium, not coming out? Edit: I think I’m seeing the original wrong, I just can’t see how the figures stick in, rather than out. Part of it might be because All the photos appear to have been altered to allow you to see the figures, as the true colour version is much harder to appreciate. See the true colour version here: https://aristomenismessinios.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-combat-agate-from-grave-of-griffin.html?m=1 https://aristomenismessinios.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-combat...
          • Someone 5y ago
            Could be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-Face_illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-Face_illusion (“an optical illusion in which the perception of a concave mask of a face appears as a normal convex face.”)
          • jdmichal 5y ago
            You can see from the small spherical artifact that the light is in the upper-right of the picture. So shadows on the upper-right mean that area is indented. We can see such shadows on the leg of the sword fighter and on the shield. So both those areas are indented.
      • cercatrova 5y ago
        You are seeing an optical illusion that causes one to think that the impression was actually facing outward, rather than inward. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-Face_illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-Face_illusion
  • SamBam 5y ago
    I believe the light reflections are just that -- actual light reflections. It's a relief carving in shiny stone.
    • lostlogin 5y ago
      That’s what I mean, sorry, I wasn’t clear.