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Re: Re: Re: tircul gold + name the bug! -- highlander | Post Reply | Edit | Forum | Where am I? |
I hadn't thought of it being an owl because they're seldom depicted in Southeast Asian artefacts. But they were common in the art of Han dynasty China, and a lot of archaeologists and historians believe there was a lot of traffic between China and the Indian Ocean by way of Yunnan and Burma (the "southern silk route") in those and slightly later times. I think it gets exaggerated myself, but this little bead might bear the theory out.
Cheers,
Will