Notes: game on...on the radio...pregame...Angels and Cleveland...Eanna and the White Temple:...looking about for the Sumerian curly cue, which I still haven't found, I found something else!...I may have found the cue while looking at Egyptian shields...thought was maybe the Egyptian shields would have tocapu emblems on them like the Andeans'/Mesoamericans'...noted was that the Narmer palette looks like a stylized shield...it comes to a roundish point at the bottom, and the top is squared off...so, so was disappointed when I found some pics of Egyptian shields, and saw they were square at the bottom, and curved on top...and more disappointed when I saw they all looked to have random patterns, the patterns cows have on their hides!...oh, Valbuena put on wavers?...rumors too manager won't return for another season...'to be addressed at the end of the season'...hmmph...saw Valbuena make some great plays at third...
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Wooden figures found in the tomb of Mesehti: Egyptian army of the 11th Dynasty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_ancient_Egypt
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Calhoun up...makes out...Young K...Ohtani up...1-0...1-1...1-2...2-2...'bangs high off the wall...stand up double'...Simmons up...
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The shields during ancient Egypt were rectangular in shape and were made from cowhide or ox hide.
http://www.ancientegyptianfacts.com/ancient-egyptian-shields.html
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Simmons made out...to bottom of 1st...well, wait, now I find Egyptian shields do have emblems...maybe there was a hierarchy...more elite soldiers had fancier shields!....hmmph...lead off hit...too many Angel opponents get lead off hits!...W...two on...wild pitch...runner moves up to third...this is not good!...no one out...Arcia is on first...blasted deep down the right field side...home run...Indians 3-0...oh...a long morning...next up hit by pitch...this is like my time in senior hardball league...we'd be done before we started...
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http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/pharaoh/explore/shield.html
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site doesn't source that pic...but think it is from here:
Tomb of Amenken, treasurer of Amenhotep II J. H. Breasted Ancient Records of Egypt, Part Two § 801f
that from first site cited, which mentions the seven shields, but doesn't show them...and search doesn't turn up another pic...one out on K...another hit by pitch...McGuire on the mound for Angels...and done...bring on the bullpen...Indians made out...to top of 2nd...I went to the King Tut show in LA, and saw King Tut's shields...they are very decorative...not many shields from ancient Egypt survived...odd that common things become the rarest things...Roman troops received paper notices of their pay...none of these survived...paper being perishable...Angels out on nine pitches...to bottom of 2nd....another lead off hit...double...
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Ceremonial gilded wooden shield from the tomb of Tutakhamun. Egyptian Museum, Cairo (New Kingdom) (photo: Dr. Amy Calvert)
https://smarthistory.org/materials-and-techniques/
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while I'm here, a follow on from yesterday:...this seventy ninth post in a series...see previous...the shields are like the Narmer palette...and, the shields are like the Egyptian steles...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narmer_Palette
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fly out double play...8-3...to top of 3rd...oh...runner from third scored...a protest...Indians 4-0...wait...didn't score...Indians 3-0...'Breseno bangs one off the wall'...but 'just a long single'...
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1) Stela of Djed-khonsu-ius-ankh, Singer of Amun, plays the harp before Ra-Heru-Akhety, Thebes, Third Intermediate Period, stuccoed and painted wood. In Andreu's Ancient Egypt at the Louvre, p. 173.
http://www.hethert.org/stelae.htm
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Young up...Steles/Shields look a bit like gravestones...Angels made out...to bottom of 4th...
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Chaotic fighting scene on a painted box from the tomb of Tutankhamen in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo (New Kingdom). Photo: Dr. Amy Calvert
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/ancient-mediterranean-ap/ancient-egypt-ap/a/egyptian-art
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Cole? pitching for Angels...clean inning...to top of 5th...Ohtani up...2-1...caught against the wall...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kadesh
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Angels strand runners at second and third...to bottom of 4th...trying to find good battle painting of Sumerian shields...guess they're Hittites...or Assyrians...or...but they're square...and covered with a grid of round dots...Sumerian warriors wear a cloak like this too...lemessee if I can re-find those!...
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Detail from the Standard of Ur – Infantrymen and High ranking chariot riders (Public Domain)
http://www.camrea.org/2016/10/05/the-sumerian-military-professionals-of-weaponry-and-warfare/
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note the polka dot cloaks...Breseno catching...pop out ends the inning...to top of 5th...Angels behind Cole settled down!...now need some offense!...Marte, Bresno, Calhoun...
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The Sumerian military forces used carts harnessed to onagers.
http://www.crystalinks.com/sumermilitary.html
from Stele of the Vulture....
I was looking through 'pharaoh at war battle scenes' for Egyptian shields, and then, then took note of the Hittite/Mespotamian shields...for sometime the history of cars, automobiles, going back through carriages/coaches to what else I can find...like the very earliest wagons...the Sumerian chariots/carts a new find...very cool about the onagers!...what happened...Breseno scores on a triple by Calhoun!...Indians 3-1...Young up...Marte made out...K...Ohtani up...they might walk Ohtani...or not pitch strikes to him...1-0...2-0...broken bat hit!...Indians 3-2...'wonderful pistachios...let's get crack'n!'...Simmons up...
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Relief of early war wagons on the Standard of Ur, c. 2500 BC
It is widely believed that wheeled transport was invented in Mesopotamia. Nevertheless, recent archaeological evidence seems to indicate otherwise, pointing to Neolithic Europe.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariot#Early_wheeled_vehicles_in_the_Near_East
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the dots on the shields on the Vulture Stele are hard to see...it's a witness to the fidelity of the artists, and the consistency of ancient regalia, that these Sumerian shields can be seen in the Egyptians' painting...this holds for other things too, like apparel, hair styles, and such...Indians made out...to top of 6th...
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The shields are very big, in fact, probably ahistorical. Recently a new theory has arisen, that each shield (as shown on the reliefs where these figures are based on) are supposed to represent 6 shields, each with a seperate shield boss. The sumerians did not know how to draw in perspective, so it is quite a plausible theory.. Then again, we will never know i guess.
http://ancminis.blogspot.com/2012/02/sumerians-heavy-troops-part-2.html
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author is referring to the shields on the Vulture stele, I think...for sometime to find that Egyptian battle scene I saw with the shields and the polka dots...they had multiple dots...and now, now for the marvel of this post!...maybe the source of the polka dots!...the White Temple, and Eanna's temple:...Eanna is Innana...the White Temple sits on top of a mud brick Ziggurat...and nearby is the temple to Eanna, the Temple of the Pillars...in my searches I kept coming across sites with pics of these, and odd mosaic pillars...I thought, a sometime, and for my mosaic collection...I just went on about mosaic borders a few posts back, and made the whimsical reach to link them with the Zapotec Mitla temple reliefs, and link those with radio sine waves!...since, I can't look at ancient geometric designs, and not think, 'radio'...lol...so, so, it gets worse...
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Photograph of modern reconstruction from the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Germany, of columns with decorative clay pins resembling mosaics from the Eanna temple
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eanna
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now, one might ask, what does that have to do with polka dot warrior cloaks and shields?...well, it's a reach, a reach to those 'clay pins'...(these said to be limestone?)
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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/325522
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The first building of Eanna, Stone-Cone Temple (Mosaic Temple), was built in period VI over a preexisting Ubaid temple and is enclosed by a limestone wall with an elaborate system of buttresses. The Stone-Cone Temple, named for the mosaic of colored stone cones driven into the adobe brick façade, may be the earliest water cult in Mesopotamia. It was ritually demolished in Uruk IVb period and its contents interred in the Riemchen Building.
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Uruk has the first monumental constructions in architectural history. Much of Near Eastern architecture can trace its roots to these prototypical buildings.
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The following table summarizes the significant architecture of the Eanna and Anu Districts.[18] Temple N, Cone-Mosaic Courtyard, and Round Pillar Hall are often referred to as a single structure; the Cone-Mosaic Temple.
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Female deity pouring a life-giving water from a vessel. Facade of Inanna Temple at Uruk, Iraq. 15th century BC. The Pergamon Museum
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It is clear Eanna was dedicated to Inanna symbolized by Venus from the Uruk period.
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The Mask of Warka, also known as the 'Lady of Uruk' and the 'Sumerian Mona Lisa', dating from 3100 BC, is one of the earliest representations of the human face. The carved marble female face is probably a depiction of Inanna. It is approximately 20 cm tall, and may have been incorporated into a larger cult image. The mask was looted from the National Museum of Iraq during the fall of Baghdad in April 2003. It was recovered in September 2003 and returned to the museum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruk#Architecture
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note large dots over her head...doing this on the fly, I find things to add to previous searches!...some things to hang on to there...like the Moche/Andeans/Mesoamericans, Sumerians ritually built over previous temples...I didn't know the complex has so many firsts!...Indians made out but got another run...the Ibaid have the lizard/froghead/alien figurines...Indians 4-2...to top of 7th...
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This piece of wall decoration (mosaic) was part of one of the walls of the white temple at Warka (Uruk) city. Stone cones are inlaid on a gypsum background. Uruk period, 3500-2800 BCE, Mesopotamia, Iraq. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).
https://www.ancient.eu/image/2825/
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the cones were all colored red, white/buff, and black...next are the pillars I kept seeing...base hit for Young...runners at first and second...Ohtani up!...Ohtani hit by pitch...'bout time...he keeps backing out!...bases loaded...Simmons up...
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http://www.crystalinks.com/uruk.html
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the cones are ingenious...not only were they for geometric designs, but because they were fired, impervious to water, and covering the surface of the adobe, it protected the mud...even let it 'breath' when it got moist...I don't know if a modern adobe home has been made in this fashion!...but it would be cool...literally and figuratively!...Angels made out...leave bases loaded...gloom...a curio is the cones are red, black, white...visible spectrum colors can be made from mixing red, green, blue...rgb...pigment colors for painting can be made from mixing yellow, red, blue...everything was magic to the ancients...so when mixing paints, and this goes way way back, there was a magical sensation when two colors made another color...there's still a magical sensation to see that while doing a painting!...and then, then, while doing all these searches, incidentally, the famous Spanish Lady showed up among the Sumerian images...go figure...Lady of Elche:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_of_Elche
seeing the side decorations, again, I've dwelled awhile before on these!...seeing those, I thought, I just went on about that pattern...it's the circular grid pattern I proposed ancient artists used when doing pre-drawings for their paintings, especially on round things...modern artists use it too, along with square grids...
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https://www.wikihow.com/Draw-a-Compass-Rose
artists developed using grids to where, like in art class, we would look through a grid, a grid on transparent glass/plexi, at a model, and then transpose that to the grid on the drawing paper...another method is to put a grid over a pic to be copied and scaled up, or down...it is easier to draw something if one can relate things to the squares for sizes and orientations...anyway, a fancy came to mind that the sides of the headdress hark to Pythagoreans and their geometries!...and then, considering rgb, ryb, the red black white of the mosaic cones, I thought of the color wheel...this while searching just how sophisticated ancient Egyptians were in mixing colors...very, I'd say...though, curiously, they didn't 'model' with different colors-shadings...just solid colors with outlines...which harks to the Andeans...anyway, looking up color wheels...wala!...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_wheel
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that is Lady Elche's headdress!...Trout pinch hit to no avail...Angels made out...to bottom of 8th...Indians make out...to top of 9th...like the Angels are going around passing out gift games to opposing teams...sell out crowds appreciative!...it's a transition season...new players, maybe new manager, in the offing...Calhoun with lead off hit...Upton up...oh, would rather Young!...Upton pinch hitting why!?...that, to win a game, or with Young, opportunity for young player(my bad, Young's 33!) to learn how to win big league games?...manager drops confidence at worst times...fc to second...Ohtani up...nearly a dp...it was...throw in dirt...wp...Upton to second...ends dp chance...sorta...backs out on called strike...1-1...1-2...2-2...checked swing...grounder to first...Simmons up...1-0...1-1...Upton scores on dogged infield grounder...scored a hit...Fletcher up...Indians 4-3...0-1...0-2...K...cue the distant tomtom...Angels back home tomorrow...
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