Archaeological image of a butterfly from Astrakhan

Dear colleagues! You would at least look at the literature on ancient images of butterflies. It is clear that the ancient Egyptians painted butterflies in color so that even the species can be recognized. But in the Proceedings of the XIII International Entomological Congress (Moscow, August 2-9, 1968), in the first volume on pages 172-173 there is a small article about images of insects in ancient Mexico (author - R. MacGregor-Loaeza). The image of a butterfly that he identified with Papilio daunus is significantly less similar to a butterfly than the first image on this forum. It seems to me that with almost complete certainty this image can be identified with a stylized day butterfly.

In fact, antique gold coins are also covered with oxides. Since the composition of gold coins included both copper and silver, they were oxidized. And on the edge of your oxides were not in the form of dark spots? This page of the site tells about fakes and the method of cleaning gold coins from oxides and patina http://www.trajan.ru/fake.htm I will not go deeper into philosophy but one thing I can say is that those who are fond of butterflies or beetles have a different and diverse range of interests so do not think that we are slurping soup with bast shoes.
PS I told you that entomologists like to help everyone so they helped archaeologists find out that there are oxides on gold coins l

Dear colleagues! You would at least look at the literature on ancient images of butterflies. It is clear that the ancient Egyptians painted butterflies in color so that even the species can be recognized. But in the Proceedings of the XIII International Entomological Congress (Moscow, August 2-9, 1968), in the first volume on pages 172-173 there is a small article about images of insects in ancient Mexico (author - R. MacGregor-Loaeza). The image of a butterfly that he identified with Papilio daunus is significantly less similar to a butterfly than the first image on this forum. It seems to me that with almost complete certainty this image can be identified with a stylized day butterfly.

I also think it's a butterfly, but I haven't seen any ancient coins with butterflies.
It would really be nice to see the full photo (or was it posted?). A stylized image is a stylized image. Although, rather, it resembles such a butterfly.

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