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beyondthisdarkhouse

I've been watching archeology documentaries lately and I just saw something that filled my heart with joy.

This is from the Hochdorf Chieftain's Grave, a lavish Iron-age Celtic burial mound in Germany. The Celts there traded with and often emulated their southern neighbours, the Greeks. For example, they used lions as a decorative motif, even though most of them had probably never seen the lions of southeastern Europe in person. So there's this big cauldron with Greek lions around the rim:

The lip of an ancient bronze pot, smattered with the patina of age, and a stylized but fairly lifelike bronze lionALT

But then! Oh no! Something happened to one of the lions, and a Celtic bronzesmith had to replace it!

A different lion on the same cauldron, with a torso like a sausage, a face like a cone, and a kind of moustache. it's cute, but absolutely not like a lion.ALT

I can see no difference, can you?

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