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Amulet representing the sun. The sun could be shown resting on a crescent moon or between the horns or rising from between the mountains. During the last millennium, the sun was often depicted as a bird’s tail. Sunrise and turquoise color were both symbols of rebirth.
Faience
New Kingdom
Provenance unknown
Cat. 1303 Museo Egizio
Egypt of Glory exhibition, Amos Rex Art Museum, Helsinki
From the collection of Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
9.10.2020-21.3.2021
Last record of the year (well almost since i bought the reissue of Ivan Jullien's Riviera sound n°1 today). English pressing of Patrice Sciortino's masterpiece originally released by the french Psi label in 1971. Both dark and eerie with ethereal female vox, twisted strings and abstract percussions...when it comes to Library Music, this is the perfect mix for me.
Happy new year to everyone !
Anybody else remember the days of multi-platter disk packs for 150 Megabytes of storage? And cleaning up after head crashes??
We're Here! looking at the Battered Beauty in our lives.
When put in service in 1911, the Chicago & North Western's Chicago Passenger Terminal (also known as Madison St. Station) was signaled with GRS Model 2 disk dwarf signals as well as high semaphores.
www.recyclart.org/2012/06/floppy-disk-bracelet/
Bracelet made with the pin of the floppy disk and the handles of the bags of paper.
++ More information at Craft and Fun website !
Idea sent by !
The first serial produced car from Brno, marketed as a "open torpedo for four persons". The engine is original, interesting is the friction gearbox with coupled clutch/gear shift control.
The Phaistos Disk refers to the goddess of love who glows and grows dim According to linguist Gareth Owens.
The Phaistos Disc is a disk of fired clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete, possibly dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age. The disk is about 15 cm in diameter and covered on both sides with a spiral of stamped symbols.
Material: Clay
Discovered: July 3, 1908; Phaistos, Crete
Discovered by: Luigi Pernier
Present location: Heraklion Archaeological Museum
Created: 2nd millennium BC
“Side Α of the disk speaks of the pregnant goddess who glows and side B contains a sentence in two lines in Minoan alliteration which refers to the goddess who grows dim; The fading of Astarte/Aphrodite/Aphaia. With your help, I should like us one day in the future to translate these lines on the goddess of love and learn more”.
With these words, linguist Dr Gareth Owens, a specialist in Minoan script, concluded his interesting talk entitled “The Voice of the Phaistos Disk” given on Wednesday at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF), in collaboration with the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Crete.
“It has 61 words on the two sides and 18 lines in the form of a rhyming sonnet. Six words speak about the light and six words speak of the light’s fading. Three words speak about the pregnant goddess and another 10 about the goddess with different adjectives”, said Dr Owens in fluent Greek, addressing a large audience in the amphitheatre of the NHRF, who had come to hear his experimental interpretation of more than half the words on the Disk, based on many years of scientific research.
“Words and a whole sentence from the Phaistos Disk were also found in other Minoan religious syllabic inscriptions, both in the cave of Arkalochori and on the Yuchtas Mountain next to Archanes and Knossos. These religious inscriptions were found along with votive offerings, so the Minoan words together with the Minoan votive offerings are related both with religion and health.
“Consequently it can be seen in a logical context, i.e. the Phaistos Disk is a Minoan religious syllabic inscription read in epigraphic continuity and related with almost parallel texts that are associated with holy sites and votive offerings , i.e. with wishes, prayers and above all with health,” Dr Owens noted.
The disk is made up of 242 icons with 42 distinct signs.
They represent everything from bows and arrows to slaves, with others still posing a mystery.
Some icons are accompanied by oblique strokes, with their importance remaining unknown.
www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1025437/phaistos-disk-meanin...
About a hundred years ago, a common phenomenon in India was crocodile attack on people when they were crossing rivers in small boats. The crocs used turn over the boats, and devour the people. however, they could not digest the ornaments, which remained in their guts for ever. one of such man-eaters was killed, and these ornaments were the proof of the grim incidents.
At Indian museum, Kolkata. (reptile gallery)