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After your traditional Thanksgiving turducken, what better dessert than a slice of homemade piecaken? (Three pies baked inside a tub o' cake batter and frosted. Yay America!)

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Like Father, Like Son.
 

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Sometimes it takes a long time to go thru customs!

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ooo, WoW! Find this one? Good one!
Bronze casting??

It appears to be bronze. My late father found it deep in the ground back in the 1960's while installing a sewer pipe in the ground on a rental property he owned. I did have the photo up on a website for a while, (it was copyrighted), and the next thing you know, the EXACT photo shows up on the front cover of an archaeololgy magazine! It was found here in central Utah. So far, only the left side of the cuneiform has been translated, it reads "MAZZAROTH". The only place I can find any info on the word mazzaroth is in the bible in Job.
It is of note that the magazine never contacted me for an interview, but yet, the are the ones claiming it reads "MAZZAROTH". So, I take thier translation with a grain of salt. I have done a little research on the piece, and it looks the the Lady De Elche that there was so much controversy over in the early 1900's. My mother is still in posession of it.
On another note....some replicas have shown up recently, although I do not know thier provenence.

Bytheway....the back of the piece shows that it was used for a buckle of some type. Finding it over 5 feet down, it has always spurred my curiosity....
 

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SPF ? ? ?

That's a total eclipse of the sun :P

But hey... big girls need lovin too. :)

Ahhh....true love is blind....that's why I was able to get a wife!
 

It appears to be bronze. My late father found it deep in the ground back in the 1960's while installing a sewer pipe in the ground on a rental property he owned. I did have the photo up on a website for a while, (it was copyrighted), and the next thing you know, the EXACT photo shows up on the front cover of an archaeololgy magazine! It was found here in central Utah. So far, only the left side of the cuneiform has been translated, it reads "MAZZAROTH". The only place I can find any info on the word mazzaroth is in the bible in Job.
It is of note that the magazine never contacted me for an interview, but yet, the are the ones claiming it reads "MAZZAROTH". So, I take thier translation with a grain of salt. I have done a little research on the piece, and it looks the the Lady De Elche that there was so much controversy over in the early 1900's. My mother is still in posession of it.
On another note....some replicas have shown up recently, although I do not know thier provenence.

Bytheway....the back of the piece shows that it was used for a buckle of some type. Finding it over 5 feet down, it has always spurred my curiosity....

Wow, thanks for all the neat info on that piece! Something to be proud of!
 

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