Fig. 1. Therasia: View of the Koimisis Hill ( photo: Photographic Archive of the Koimisis Excavation / K. Sbonias)
Posted on 11/07/2021 10:45:12 AM PST by SunkenCiv
...in the northwestern part of the settlement, where in the previous excavation period very strong retaining walls had been discovered at a height of almost two meters, two building interiors (X1, X2), one containing a bench, and an exterior courtyard also with a bench. The layers of lava and ash from the eruption of the Santorini volcano covering this part of the settlement remains contributed considerably to their being perfectly preserved (fig. 2). The above areas were thoroughly excavated thus clarifying matters of their form, nature and chronology, with the presence of both Middle Cycladic layers and Early Cycladic phases of different periods, which in some places possibly go back to the beginning of the Early Cycladic period. A new area was also excavated to the south, situated on the current edge of the cliff which indicated the extent of the slope collapse caused by the eruption. The latter area is connected through a door with a narrow elongated room of the Early Cycladic period. In 2019, near this door and almost on its threshold, a seal was found with fragments of writing...
The excavation was also completed in the open-air courtyard, onto which the above building opens and where a tiered passage ends that follows the contour from east to west... the terrace that defines it to the south was demarcated, additional tiers were unearthed in the passage as was another bench on the north side of the courtyard. The findings in the courtyard were also interesting; many stone tools, obsidian and large millstones. It was obviously a workplace. The pottery was mainly Middle Cycladic but interspersed with the finds from the Early Cycladic era. There were also some remnants of tools for weaving that indicate the practice of spinning yarn and possibly weaving.
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Fig. 1. Therasia: View of the Koimisis Hill ( photo: Photographic Archive of the Koimisis Excavation / K. Sbonias)
3000 BC
[snip] Pliny described the changes in land and sea distribution. “Land is sometimes formed . . . rising suddenly out of the sea. Delos and Rhodes, islands which have now been long famous, are recorded to have risen up in this way. More lately there have been some smaller islands formed,” and he names them: Anapha, Nea, Halone, Thera, Therasia, Hiera, and Thia, the last of which appeared in his own time.
Pindar said that “the isle of Rhodes was not yet to be seen in the open main, but was hidden in the briny depths of the sea” ; then it was born in the darkness—the sun was absent. When the sun finally lighted the earth again, a plot of land was seen “rising from the bottom of the foaming main.” [/snip]The Dark Age of Greece, Changes in Land and Sea, Immanuel Velikovsky
Writing? 3000 BC in the Aegean? Not a chance.
It would be interesting if the fragments of writing are similar to those on the Phaistos Disc...
It would have been nice if they'd published a picture of it, it's easily the most interesting find in the entire history of that dig. That suggests that the find is problematic for the conventional pseudochronology.
A picture? That’s just crazy talk...
If it *did* used the Phaistos disk characters, which are pictograms (cut with dies, meaning the earliest known example of moveable type), we’d be able to look at a picture of pictograms, which would be analogous to gazing into an infinity mirror...
Cycladic culture was a Bronze Age culture found throughout the islands of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea. In chronological terms, it is a relative dating system for artefacts which broadly complements Helladic chronology and Minoan chronology during the same period of time. Wikipedia
Start date: 3200 BC
End date: 1050 BC
I cheated and read the full article. They don’t identify the type of writing but most likely it would be Linear A. Linear B may not have been developed yet by the time of the eruption of Thera.
You did WHAT?!?!????
Yes, I’m aware of the conventional dating.
Pottery pic:
diagram of the site:
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