GRST 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Phoenician Women, Ismene, Cylinder Seal
17 Dec 2018
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Sphinx- a monster(a creature with parts that usually don"t go to together), monster in latin is something that is something that is unshown and it demonstrates some lesson. Colossal sphinx, presented by citizens of naxos to delphi. Spinx probably served a furrerary purpose, probably was where the grave for the python slayed by zeus. A gift given to apollo at the delphi. Pergmon museum, berlin, assyrian imassu (winged lion with human head) Imprint of achaemenid (persian) cylinder seal, depecting achaemenid king subduing two rampant mespostamian iamassu gures. Ismenian apollo at thebes in boeotia i have myself seen cauldrons with inscriptions cut on them in cadmean characters most of them not very di erent from the ionian. Talking about thieves and its role in its transmission of culture between east and west. Noticed that greek alphabet is an adaptation of the phoenician alphabet.
