Lion seal pendant oxidized sterling silver seal necklace ancient greek mythology lion replica. men strength symbol pendant animal necklace.

Graduation gift. Mother's Day gift. Seal Lion Pendant on Sterling Silver 925 oxidized. Seal necklace. Ancient Greek mythology lion Replica seal Men's Strength symbol pendant. Animal Necklace. A beautiful sterling silver lion pendant based on an Ancient Greek coin. Luxury Handcrafted Lion King Men's Pendant, Sculpted Lion King Oxidized Vintage Finish Necklace, Engraved Unisex Lion King Necklace The whole pendant was oxidized and partially brushed so that it takes an antiqued, vintage looking style with a darkened silver finish It is ideal for daily use with 925 oxide silver, which makes details more attractive eye-catching. Lions were very popular coin themes in Ancient Greece The element hanging from the chain was created out of a vintage replica Greek signet with the figure of the lion. A powerful and symbolic gift for men and women. A perfect birthday gift for your loved ones! The seal-making device is also referred to as the seal matrix or die; the imprint it creates as the seal impression (or, more rarely, the sealing). If the impression is made purely as a relief resulting from the greater pressure on the paper where the high parts of the matrix touch, the seal is known as a dry seal; in other cases ink or another liquid or liquefied medium is used, in another color than the paper. In most traditional forms of dry seal the design on the seal matrix is in intaglio (cut below the flat surface) and therefore the design on the impressions made is in relief (raised above the surface). The design on the impression will reverse (be a mirror-image of) that of the matrix, which is especially important when script is included in the design, as it very often is. This will not be the case if paper is embossed from behind, where the matrix and impression read the same way, and both matrix and impression are in relief. However engraved gems were often carved in relief, called cameo in this context, giving a "counter-relief" or intaglio impression when used as seals. The process is essentially that of a mould. Lions were very popular coin themes in Ancient Greece. Several discoveries of lion bones in Greece, the Ukraine and the Balkans have confirmed that lions lived there certainly from 5th millennium BC till the 6th century BC, while according to the written sources they survived up to perhaps the 1st or even the 4th century AD, which was previously only a suspicion by some archaeologists. Thus the strong emphasis on lions in the earliest figurative Greek art, especially that of Mycenaean Greece from around 1600-1400 BC, reflected the world in which Greeks lived, rather than being based on stories from further east, as once thought. Lionesses often flanked the Gorgon, a vestige of the earliest Greek protective deity that often was featured atop temples of later eras. The western pediment from the Artemis Temple of Corfu is a well preserved example. The most notable lion of Ancient Greek mythology was the Nemean lion, killed barehanded by Heracles, who subsequently bore the pelt as an invulnerable magic cloak. This lion is also said to be represented by the constellation of Leo, and also the sign of the Zodiac. Lions are known in many cultures as the king of animals, which can be traced to the Babylonian Talmud, and to the classical book Physiologus. In his fables, the famed Greek story teller Aesop used the lion's symbolism of power and strength in The Lion and the Mouse and Lion's Share. Since classical antiquity, a Gaetulian lion in literature is a lion of fierce reputation. Gaetulia, in ancient geography, was the land of the Gaetuli, a warlike tribe of ancient Libya that appears in Virgil's Aeneid (19 BC).The Gaetulia lion appears in Odes of Horace (23 BC), Pliny the Elder's Natural History (77 AD), Philostratus's Life of Apollonius of Tyana Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879). In Socrates' model of the psyche (as described by Plato), the bestial, selfish nature of humanity is described metaphorically as a lion, the "leontomorphic principle".
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