Lord Sipan's Cap
Notes: Game on...on the radio...Calhoun up....Angels and Athletics....opposite field double...Trout coming up as DH...top of first...hit by pitch...Boor up....DP...Simmons up....0-2...1-2...K...hmmph....I find things in much the same way that Brooks found his scarabs....see pervious post...he was looking at photographs, comparing them, and noted the similarities of the carvings on the obelisks...actually, this is pretty easy to see...and seeing how the obelisks have been researched for a long while, likely noted else ware...but who is to say?...I browse the web. google images. looking for 'finds', 'catches'...anomalous enigmas...Oop artifacts...it's not likely I'll find, or note, anything not noted before...but that's not to say something isn't new to me...A's made out...Angels up...one out...Stella up...new to me, and dear reader...so, so, I found a treasure!....I noted that Lord Sipan's cap was decorated with a step fret...that alone a treasure, insomuch as it emphasizes how important, and ubiquitous, the step fret is...well, well. browsing about, I found a Moche architectural ceramic model with the same motifs of Lord Sipan's headdress...the step fret. and the tall fan...the ceramic has registers...rows of motifs...step frets alternating with the fan...it's like a little temple with a spiral ramp...on top a small house which has stepped gables...and a quadripartite design on my suspects list!...so, so, here is where putting two pics side by side, a match cut, helps...brb...bottom of third. no score...
from google image search: moche architectural models
hard to source...pic shows up often...along with a whole bunch of Moche models...which are really cool...and often have the step frets...note these have the steps and triangle....and note the little square in the middle of the fans!...this is kind of like my 'scarab' wala that Brooks came to looking at the obelisk scarabs...
Sipan's hat has the steps, triangle, and the curl...the little square supports the fan...there are other ceramics that have the square in the center of the fan motif...pic is from wiki...A's have a couple two out runners...noted by Brooks was the fidelity of the hieroglyphs on the different obelisks....same size, same quality...there is a similar fidelity to Moche motifs....A's make out with bases loaded...the ceramic artists knew of Lord Sipans regalia, and worked the motifs into the ceramic paintings...and, or, the regalia derived from the ceramics!...or something...I dunno...thoughts here go back to the tocapus, the Inca kings tunic, the crowstep motif on the Inca warrior tunics...motifs/artifacts are a language...when they are done well, their every aspect has import...Angels make out in nine pitches...in the off season. I collected a bunch of step fret stuff...and other stuff...cant present it all at once...enough for today!...have chores to do!...game in progress...bottom of fourth, Skaggs still on the mound...no score...woops...A's with home run...A's 1-0...
:)
DavidDavid
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