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Are these fishes?
Yes, I think they represent fishes, at least that's what they look like to me. You can't see well in the photo, but they have "tails" consisting of opposed spirals.
Very nice pieces. Have you more info, from which area of the world ? I have seen the spiral tails, very nice!
Eva, they are from a bronze age site in Java, from the so-called "Dong Son" period in Javanese civilization. The term "Dong Son", of course refers to the seminal civilization in what is now Vietnam, which is seen as having launched a cultural and technological diaspora throughout maritime Southeast Asia in the centuries bracketing the beginning of the Christian Era. Year 0.
Thank you very much, Susi, for the detailed Information. Very interesting and nice!
Beautiful! So they are from before the Hindu Javanese period, very interesting.
Fish might be, like the frogs fertility (water).