An ancient gold cup mysteriously acquired by an English scrap metal dealer is expected to fetch close to a million dollars at auction after languishing for years in a shoe box under its current owner's bed.And it's not only got the Cult of Set two-headed snake symbol, but like Thulsa himself, it's two-faced.
I love the anecdote about the guy not knowing what he had and using the cup as a BB gun target.
[Via JD]
Thats too funny...
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw the news story yesterday, I noticed the two-headed snake from the Conan movie also.
I had similar thoughts.
Longbow
"The Achaemenids were enlightened DESPOTS..."
ReplyDeleteXerxes, whom you may know as Leonidas's would-be conqueror-god in "300," was one.
They had many royal inspectors roaming the land, "the eyes and ears of the king." A surveillance society. How apropos.
imagine this artifact sleeping unknown for thousands of years, to surface NOW.
Persian archaeology: "Under the horse of Ahuramazda [the Creator] lies "the one who lies," the devil Ahriman, with two snakes coming from his head."
ReplyDeleteAhriman becomes the Shaitan of the Arabs and Satan to the Christians.
He must not have been a very good shot.
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