Richard E asked:
I have an ancient stone carving, possibly incense burner figure is babboon like animal sitting position with crane or stork type bird standing erect with open bill under babboons arms which are embracing oval shaped bowl figure is 6" wide , 4" high 2 1/2" thick bowl has floral etching on front cluster of berries or fruit with narrow leaves are there any archeologists that can help me identify origin and age.I don't have a camera to add pic I'm in Sacramento Ca. area and could bring it to any one close to area to identify.
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I have an ancient stone carving, possibly incense burner figure is babboon like animal sitting position with crane or stork type bird standing erect with open bill under babboons arms which are embracing oval shaped bowl figure is 6" wide , 4" high 2 1/2" thick bowl has floral etching on front cluster of berries or fruit with narrow leaves are there any archeologists that can help me identify origin and age.I don't have a camera to add pic I'm in Sacramento Ca. area and could bring it to any one close to area to identify.
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April 1st, 2009 at 11:56 am
why don’t you check out if you can bring it to a museum
April 4th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
it sounds like an aztec ritual inscent. thier god was in the form of a baboon and it ment honor to die with one. it mightbe used for sacrificial reasons. they would put inscence around a stone tablet where they had thier human sacrifice. they would then cut out his heart with a baboon hilted dagger. they would then put the still beating heart into a pot and put out these incense
the problem is you cant tell wether they r unique as tey made fakes but they have so much resemlance