[Ancientartifacts] Re: Expert evaluation; Cato90025

--- In Ancientartifacts@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Barford" <pbarford@...> wrote:
>Thank you Paul..

THIS is why we have lists!!
& why this sites experts are so valued by us antiquities plebs..
Enough said!!.. Can we now move on..

Regards Steve S

> cato90025 writes:
> > A group member and an antiquities expert..<
> I note though that the "Roman iron trident" is nowhere mentioned. On what
> did you base your description and how can you show this was not a
> misatribution? (analogies please).
>
> You were also asked about the documentation of legal export of the Egyptian
> piece and no information has been offered. It was not condemned through lack
> of "microscopic examination", but by style and lack of any information about
> the analogies which you see as supporting your claim of such an early date,
> Old Kingdom sculptures don't look like that, so why do you in your
> description date it specifically to the Old Kingdom and offer a COA for that
> date?
>
> BTW: How can your Zeus figurine be both "Hellenistic" and "Archaistic" (sic)
> and Roman all at the same time?
>
> I really cannot see what all the fuss is about, your attributions and
> descriptions are amateurish and as such caveat emptor.
>
> Paul Barford
>


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