Some women are intriguing. #3 – Zeugma Gypsy Girl

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This Greco-Roman mosaic of what is known as the Zeugma Gypsy Girl is about 2,000 years old. It was found near (lat/lon 37.0574, 37.8705) in 1999 before a new dam on the Euphrates River flooded the area. I have smoothed out the mosaic stones to better reveal the wary emotion of the young woman. Note the cap she is wearing appears to be a Phrygian cap which is a classic symbol of liberty also seen in the US Senate’s seal.

Zeugma Gypsy Girl smoothed to erase the gaps between the stones

This picture is another view of liberty and exploitation.

I’ve been distracted again.

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I cleanup ideas

My thoughts on a new diet strategy for humanity are coming along nicely, and the conversations with my friends about it have been very positive and supportive. So, what’s my problem? I was distracted by an observation that the ancient Zeugma mosaic, the Playboy girl of the year 1972, the famous National Geographic refugee girl, and the Mona Lisa all have something ineffable in common. I would post them now, but the only one I have worked up to my satisfaction is the Mona Lisa. That little job took me a month of ten-hour days or more to clean up. I probably have the best Mona Lisa in existence in my living room and I look at her for a few minutes every day. I have inner conversations with her about what I should be doing with my time. These talks are rather similar to my questioning of the garden gnome Samupmsycle. They both have very strange looks when I ask them questions.

I realize this is totally my projected inner thoughts, and their responses are really coming from my mind seeing things that are not in those artworks but in me. All the same, these brief conversations are helpful. It is probably similar to people for thousands of years having conversations with religious icons of various sorts. We are really finding answers from our fog-shrouded inner beings.

For others to have any hope to experience what I am seeing will require many hours of work on each of these images. Just showing them in their current conditions, with their existing imperfections, wouldn’t do them justice. They need to be very clean to see their inner light. It is absurd for me to make the comparison, but I feel it is like Michelangelo seeing the Pieta within a stone and then washing away the obscuring material. The enormous difference is that I am beginning with another person’s conception of an image and then washing it a bit so that it is more clearly revealed.

The cleansing of preexisting ideas is all I do.

We lived and lived and nothing happened today.

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Dental crown, Tree fallen on my house, Working on my diet book

A diary-like entry.

I must have been excited today because I talked myself hoarse by 10 AM. The plans for a diet book have been going along nicely, and spinning some new ideas past my friends apparently entertains them enough to maintain their interest. My contention is that the half-trillion-dollar diet industry is fighting a losing battle at present because they are not facing the fundamental issue of why people are getting obese. My little group of four people was surrounded in a public restaurant by eight obese ones. The only person not clearly way overweight was a two-year-old child. That was unusual because looking further out there were only a few more. All the same, it’s an indicator of a worldwide epidemic.

I was sometimes yammering on about my feelings of guilt about not working harder on my diet book. My guilt springs from my knowing I can help a high percentage of the billion people at risk of sickness and early death and I am being dilatory in my progress. My plan was to work on the diet book full-time after finishing the nonsense project of projecting lines all over the Seven Sages of Greece mosaic last week. However, today I did make real progress and I consider the few minutes writing this post to putting those vast numbers of obese people at unnecessary risk.

Other personal news. Last week I had a dental crown put in. It was almost a non-event because there wasn’t any pain and it didn’t take very long. The procedures may have been a bit complicated for the dentist and his assistant but for me, it was a half hour or less of sitting patiently on a couple of occasions while they did their thing. I departed home and returned well within an hour each time and now, supposedly I am a better person. At least I am very marginally a prettier one and I can bite more fiercely.

The home repair after the ponderosa tree falling on our house last month is progressing well, the roof and solar panels are up and functioning and the ceiling guy came by this afternoon to lay out his actions for next week. That will be far more of an event than my getting a dental crown because I will have a guy running around inside my house instead of a crew on the roof and in the back yard.

Life is made more meaningful by a sequence of significant events. Or is it just a bother?

Roman Empire is centered on Rome at 41.9° latitude

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Rome (lat/lon 41.9, 12.5) in 79 AD was the capital at the center of the still rapidly expanding empire when Mt. Vesuvius erupted and buried the Seven Sages of Greece mosaic.

This map of the Roman Empire is for 54 AD, 25 years before Mt. Vesuvius erupted, with the sites inside of color-coded circles.

There is a problem for this analysis based on lines of latitude because Rome is nearly on the same latitude as Apsaros, which is one of the outposts of the Empire. Rome is a large city and its center is about eighteen miles north of Apsaros, which was a fortress on the east shore of the Black Sea (Pontus Euxinus). Apsaros is fifteen hundred miles due east of Rome. In the chart below this nearness of latitude is demonstrated by the pink and overlapping green line extending from the lower right corner upward to just below the upper left corner. Apsaros is at 41.6° and Rome at 41.9. The physical distance between the latitude lines is about eighteen miles, and their zero point three degrees separation on the picture is quite small, as is demonstrated by the closeness of the two lines even after being projected corner to corner on the picture seen below.

Rome is located on the Seven Sages of Greece mosaic by green lines set left and right at its latitude angle of 41.9°.

Even with this closeness of angle the lines projected for Rome were clearly different in their creation of hot spot intersections with the projected lines coming from the sundial at the top of the picture. The hot spots are created by an overlap of a minimum of three separate lines, with at least two coming from a separate set of three aligned important points such as sages’ eyes or toes etc.. The green circles are hot spots for Rome and they have their lines of latitude shown going from important points to at least two other important points. The Apsaros lines have been omitted because this is a demonstration of Rome’s lines, but the Apsaros hot spots were created using the same criteria as Rome’s and have been shown with their color-coded pink circles.

It was a surprise to me how very different the two sets of hot spot circles were because I had located these two sets of lines and their associated circles without reference to the other. One would think that with the lines being so very close together in their angles there would be similar hot spot hits, but you may observe they are totally different.

Rome latitude lines in green with their hot spot overlaps with the sundial lines in green circles. The Apsaros hot spots are pink circles and are included for comparison.

The gray circle is a foretaste of another set of strange lines. This circle is the center of the bench the sages are seated upon. The center of this circle was also a hot spot for Rome line crossings.

Whoever created the Seven Sages of Greece mosaic had their latitude lines accurate to better than a tenth of a degree.

Roman Empire grows to York at 53.9° in Britain

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York (Eboracum, Britannia) (lat/lon 53.962, -1.080) was founded in 71 AD. It was the northwest corner of the Roman Empire when the Seven Sages of Greece mosaic was buried in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption of 79 AD. At that time the Roman legions were moving up the island of Britannia and by 122 AD were building Hadrian’s wall eighty miles north of modern York.

This map of The Roman Empire is for 54 AD, 25 years before Mt. Vesuvius erupted, with the sites inside of color-coded circles.

York is in the top left of the map above and the green area of Britannia is where the Romans were in control in 54 AD.

York, England, with the Seven Sages of Greece mosaic indicating with yellow lines a latitude of 53.8°

Below is the Seven Sages mosaic picture with the image removed, leaving only the lines at 53.8° and the radiant lines from the sundial showing the hot spots of multiple crossovers for easier visualization of the relationships. Click the pictures for bigger images.

The 53.8° lines for York with the spots of multiple overlapping of the lines.

Note that the vertical center line for the mosaic departs from the top center gargoyle’s nose downward through the top sage’s eye, onto the center of the whole picture where the horizontal dividing line is met, down to the sage’s foot at a point that is a hot spot for other site line crossings; on to another foot that is also a site for other multiple line crossings and down to the bottom gargoyle’s nose.

The Seven Sages mosaic must have been created between the founding of Eboracum in 71 AD and the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Roman Empire grows to Purpuraires 31.5° on the Atlantic Ocean

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Purpuraires was at the southwest corner of the Roman Empire when the Seven Sages of Greece mosaic was buried in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption of 79 AD.
Some rare snails lived in the water off the tiny islands just off shore. They were the source of purple dyes. The Royal blue dye was a very intense purple-blue color and only the royalty was permitted to use this purple for dying their clothing.

This map of The Roman Empire is for 54 AD, 25 years before Mt. Vesuvius erupted with the sites inside of colored coded circles.

Purpuraires’ location is slightly off the map dated to 54 AD, but it is accurately indicated by the purple circle. There are Roman stone structures from that time still visible near there.

Purpuraires with the Seven Sages of Greece mosaic indicating with purple lines a latitude of 31.5°

Below is the same picture but with the mosaic removed so the sundial’s white radiant lines and the 31.5° Purpuraires latitude lines may be seen and compared more easily.

The 31.5° lines for Purpuraires with hot spots circled on the sundial radiant lines of the Seven Sages of Greece mosaic.

Note that at the top circle four white sundial lines go through the top left sage’s eye and two flipped Purpuraires purple lines go through that eye too. Each of these lines was through interesting previously delineated locations on the mosaic. Observe also that the top line through the sage’s eye on our left goes through the top sage’s eye and on through the gargoyle’s eye too.

That line was precisely duplicated at 31.5° and searched across the rest of the mosaic for multiple crossings of places of interest. That 31.5° line was then copied and flipped horizontally and was then searched for hot spots across the picture creating new hotspots. There are ten spots that have three or more independent lines going through them and the spot at the top sage’s eye has six lines. The gargoyle’s eyes are not hot spotted with a circle because it’s difficult to get four independent lines to go through a point near a corner.

All of these picky details point to one thing. There is an intelligence behind the precise locations of these lines. It appears that the lines indicate the most remote sites controlled by the Roman Empire shortly before Mt. Vesuvius erupted.

This analysis points to the borders of the Roman Empire the year Mt. Vesuvius erupted. 

Roman Empire grows to Apsaros 41.6° on the Black Sea

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Apsaros Roman fort, Pliny the Elder, Seven Sages of Greece mosaic

This map of The Roman Empire is for 54 AD, 25 years before Mt. Vesuvius erupted with the sites inside of colored coded circles.

Apsaros at latitude 41.6° (lat/lon 41.573, 41.573) is at the easternmost point on the Black Sea. It had a Roman fort at that location and was the furthest east the Empire extended at that time.

Apsaros at 41.6 is revealed in the multiple hot spots found here.

The Seven Sages mosaic with lines drawn at 41.6 degrees latitude from the left and right that intersect with lines projected from the sundial.

Apsaros hot spots shown where there are multiple intersections of predefined lines.

Pliny the Elder wrote of the Apsaros fortress in his book on Natural History. It is a possibility that he was responsible for creating the Seven Sages mosaic which is the stimulus for these inquiries. He was a wealthy man, a prolific author and as knowledgeable as any Roman of geography at that time. 

The Seven Sages mosaic has an astonishing number of multiple overlaps of key points in not just this location but at several other important sites.

 

Roman Empire growing East at Antioch, latitude 36.2°

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All the sites marked below in the Roman Empire map of 79 AD are indicated on the Seven Sages of Greece mosaic. They are identified by the latitude lines revealed by the relationship to the angle of the sun. Those sites’ latitudes are found by finding intersecting hot spots on the radiations coming from the sundial at the top of the mosaic linked to that angle. The sundial plays a key role in indicating the height of the sun and thus the latitude of the physical locations of the sites within the Roman Empire.

This map of The Roman Empire is for 54 AD, 25 years before Mt. Vesuvius erupted with the sites inside of colored coded circles.

Antioch was a large fortified Roman city located at the far eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. It was used as a staging area for an intended conquest down the Euphrates river of the Parthian empire. The Romans sent a large army down the Euphrates in 53 BC but met with a crushing defeat.Antioch with 7 Sages of Greece indicating a latitude of 36.2°

Antioch depicted in Roman times by kayhankaplan (deviantart.com)

Note the similarity of the city depicted in the background of the Seven Sages mosaic to this depiction of Roman Antioch. There is a river in the foreground with a defensive wall and another defensive wall high above the city. Also, there is a large black area at the base of the hill and an area that seems to symbolize a building.

The 36.2° lines for Antioch with hot spot circled on the sundial lines of the Seven Sages of Greece mosaic.

Note the top line is projected through three of the sages’ eyes and the upper right, a gargoyle’s eye and what appears to be a ball held in the guy on our left’s hand. This alignment of five key items is unlikely to have happened randomly.

Whoever created this mosaic was familiar with the latitude of Antioch and the sphericity of the Earth.

Roman Empire’s intellectual center at Alexandria is at latitude 31.2°

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This is the basic picture of the 7 Sages of Greece for linking the Roman Empire to many sites.

At the top center of the mosaic is a sundial. It plays a key role in locating the height of the sun and thus the latitude of the physical locations within the Roman Empire.

The city of Alexandria, Egypt, after Alexander the Great founded it at the mouth of the Nile River in 331 BC, became the location for the greatest library in the world. This library was the center of intellectual activity for the Western world for millennia. There is a commemorative sundial (lat/lon 31.2064, 29.9148) 517 meters 117° from the center of the modern Library of Alexandria.

A sundial located near the modern Library of Alexandria.

It was near this library that in 240 BC Eratosthenes measured the sun’s angle above the horizon and compared it to the report of a well near Aswan on the Nile River.

Sunlight reflecting off the water at the bottom of well at Kom Ombo

He knew approximately how far south along the Nile River that well was located and by comparing the distance to the angle of the sun at Alexandria on the same date he was able to calculate the circumference of the Earth. Kom Ombo was a fortified location at the south-east corner of the Roman Empire at the time the Seven Sages mosaic was created.

Where the sundial lines intersect the Alexandria latitude lines are hot spot circles.

These lines are precisely parallel at 31.2° above horizontal and flipped horizontally to also be precisely parallel at 31.2°. The lines were drawn through eyes, fingertips, toe tips, scroll tips and horizontal and vertical lines defining the center of the picture.

The 31.2° lines derived from this mosaic and drawn onto it in blue lines.

This map of The Roman Empire is for 54 AD, 25 years before Mt. Vesuvius erupted.

Alexandria is at the north end of the Nile River. It is between here and Kom Ombo at the southern end of this picture that the circumference of the spherical Earth was first calculated and demonstrated.

The Seven Sages of Greece mosaic demonstrates that the Romans knew the Earth was a sphere.

The Roman Empire goes to Kom Ombo on the Nile River

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This is the basic picture of the 7 Sages of Greece to be used for linking the borders of the Roman Empire.

At the top center of the mosaic is a sundial. It plays a key role in locating the height of the sun and thus the latitude of the physical locations in the Roman Empire. When the mosaic was buried in 79 AD the Empire was expanding its size, and this first post using this method of alignments will show the latitude of the south-east corner of the empire at the temple of Kom Ombo on the Nile River, where the Romans had a military base.

The lines radiating from the sundial will help define the latitudes of the locations defined by the mosaic.

There are many ways lines can be drawn on a picture, but the lines drawn on this picture will be accurate to nearly one-tenth of a degree. There are 360 degrees in a circle and ten parts of accuracy within a degree, and that makes the accuracy to one part in 3600, divided by two because the lines run in both directions. A line hitting two special points across the picture at a given angle would be rare and hitting three points would be very rare. Therefore, precise alignments of many special points must have been created intentionally by the artist.

Kom Ombo showing the 24.5° lines overlay and strike points to special places.

 

Kom Ombo spots that have three or more accurate overlaps of sundial lines and Kom Ombo lines.

 

The Seven Sages mosaic with sundial lines, Kom Ombo lines and hot spots of red circles showing multiple overlaps. Click for bigger image.

Kom Ombo, latitude 24.5º, is the site of an Egyptian-style temple built by the Ptolemaic Greeks. The Kom Ombo lines are drawn at a 24.5° angle from the horizontal both from the left and the right sides. Observe that the sage’s eye directly under the sundial has a vertical line from the sundial, a horizontal line for the two tree branches intersecting the columns to our left and a diagonal line from the exact center of the mosaic. Note the red line at the same angle from between the gargoyle’s eyes thru a sage’s eye and on to the central sage’s eye. Thus we have three white lines and a red line converging onto a single point.

Descending down the sundial line to the globe we can see a convergence of two red lines with two white lines. All the lines on this chart and the future charts will have similar exact multiple alignments. There are multitudes of these alignments and they must have been placed with great care.

The tenth of a degree alignment that is displayed here equals an accuracy of about six miles (10 kilometers) on the face of the Earth. The original measurements if done carefully even with primitive instruments might have been accurate to a mile.

This map of The Roman Empire is for 54 AD, 25 years before Mt. Vesuvius erupted.

In the years between the latest date for this map at 54 AD and the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD the Roman Empire had expanded beyond York UK (Eboracum), which was founded in 71 AD. As I will illustrate in a later post the Seven Sages Mosaic must have been made in the eight years between 71 AD and 79 AD.

The Seven Sages of Greece mosaic lines may seem strange but they are accurately drawn.