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Can't place right now-but have seen face before
by: AnonymousRedd

I think that i saw it/horse/dragon/whatever/?

At one of 3(ish ? / + ? ) places
At So Cal Spring Renaissance Faire - l
ate 1980's through early 1990's
When researching OLD Fairy Tales -not watered down feel good Disney Shite - scary ones - umm maybe Kevin Cline - not sure of Spelling

When looking up family crest from the UK &

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Mares of Diomedes
by: Monica

Another possibility that came to my mind was it was one of the four Mares of Diomedes that Hercules had to capture as one of his labors.

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Horseplay or Immortal Courage?
by: Yvonne

Thanks for writing in and uploading an image of grandma's cameo with horse head in profile, who looks like he's come down from heaven (or hell).

.. but I don't think this subject is horsing around..


and I'm leaning towards Arion. In the History of Jewelry, Cameo and greek mythology have been great bedfellows. Arion or Areion (Ancient Greek:'Ἀρίων, Ἀρείων, gen.: Ἀρίωνος, Ἀρείωνος) is a divinely-bred, extremely swift immortal horse which, according to the Latin poet Sextus Propertius, was endowed with speech.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arion_(mythology)


Warm Wishes,
Yvonne

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