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| Keywords: TheraLateCyccladicIbex06656.JPG Late Cycladic 17th cent BCE gold ibex sculpture about 10cm long with w lost-wax casting feet and head Repoussé body from an excavation on Santorini Own 2007-04-03 User Leonard G See thumbs thumb right thumb right This is the only gold object so far found from the excavation it was hidden underneath a floor That fact and the lack of skeletal remains associated with the volcanic event that destroyed the Thera island group in the 17th century BCE suggests an orderly evacuation was performed before the volcano's collapse into the current caldera now some 3000 feet deep Chèvre d'Or Golden ibex in Prehistoric Museum of Thira 434 Lost-wax casting Repoussé | ||||
