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Rongorongo Text C
Rongorongo (; Rapa Nui: ) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that appears to be writing or proto-writing. Text C of the rongorongo corpus, also known as ''Mamari'', is one of two dozen surviving rongorongo texts. It contains the Rapa Nui calendar. Other names C is the standard designation, from Barthel (1958). Fischer (1997) refers to it as RR2. Jaussen called it ''Miro-Mimosa'' "Mimosa wood". Location General archives of the '' Padri dei Sacri Cuori'' (SSCC), Casa Generalizia, Via Rivarone 85, I-00166 Rome, Italy. Reproductions are located at the SSCC; ''Musée de l'Homme,'' Paris; Museum of Mankind, London; ''Cinquantenaire,'' Brussels; '' Museum für Völkerkunde,'' Berlin (2 copies)''Institut für Völkerkunde'' Tübingen (prior to 1989; on loan from the '' Linden-Museum''); and the van Hoorebeeck Collection, Belgium. Physical description Excellent condition, with one hole at the top (verso). A rounded rectangular unfluted tablet, 29 × ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rongorongo
Rongorongo (Rapa Nui: ) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) that appears to be writing or proto-writing. Numerous attempts at decipherment have been made, with none being successful. Although some calendrical and what might prove to be genealogical information has been identified, none of these glyphs can actually be read. If rongorongo does prove to be writing and proves to be an independent invention, it would be one of very few independent inventions of writing in human history. Two dozen wooden objects bearing rongorongo inscriptions, some heavily weathered, burned, or otherwise damaged, were collected in the late 19th century and are now scattered in museums and private collections. None remain on Easter Island. The objects are mostly tablets shaped from irregular pieces of wood, sometimes driftwood, but include a chieftain's staff, a bird-man statuette, and two ''reimiro'' ornaments. There are also a few petroglyphs which may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phonetic Complement
A phonetic complement is a phonetic symbol used to disambiguate word characters (logograms) that have multiple readings, in mixed logographic-phonetic scripts such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Akkadian cuneiform, Japanese, and Mayan. Often they reenforce the communication of the ideogram by repeating the first or last syllable in the term. Written English has few logograms, primarily numerals, and therefore few phonetic complements. An example is the ''nd'' of ''2nd'' 'second', which avoids ambiguity with 2 standing for the word 'two'. In addition to numerals, other examples include Xmas, Xianity, and Xing for Christmas, Christianity, and Crossing – note the separate readings ''Christ'' and ''Cross''. In cuneiform In Sumerian, the single word ''kur'' had two meanings: 'hill' and 'country'. Akkadian, however, had separate words for these two meanings: ''šadú'' 'hill' and ''mātu'' 'country'. When Sumerian cuneiform was adapted for writing Akkadian, this was ambiguous because b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barthel Cb
Barthel may refer to: People * E. J. Barthel (born 1985), American football player *Ernst Barthel (1890–1953), Alsatian mathematician and philosopher, friend of Albert Schweitzer *Johann Caspar Barthel (1697–1771), German Jesuit canon lawyer *Josy Barthel (1927–1992), Luxembourgish Olympic athlete *Klaus Barthel (born 1955), German politician of the SPD *Kurt Barthel (fl. mid-20th century), founder of the American nudist movement *Marcel Barthel (born 1990), German professional wrestler *Max Barthel (1893–1975) German author *Mona Barthel (born 1990), German tennis player *Thomas Barthel (1923–1997), German ethnologist and epigrapher *Trond Barthel (born 1970), Norwegian champion pole-vaulter *Barthel Beham (1502–1540), German engraver, miniaturist, and painter *Barthel Schink Bartholomäus (Barthel) Schink (; November 27, 1927 – November 10, 1944) was a member of the Edelweiss Pirates, active in the Ehrenfeld Group ( Ehrenfeld is a district of Cologne) in Cologne, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barthel Ca
Barthel may refer to: People * E. J. Barthel (born 1985), American football player *Ernst Barthel (1890–1953), Alsatian mathematician and philosopher, friend of Albert Schweitzer *Johann Caspar Barthel (1697–1771), German Jesuit canon lawyer * Josy Barthel (1927–1992), Luxembourgish Olympic athlete *Klaus Barthel (born 1955), German politician of the SPD *Kurt Barthel (fl. mid-20th century), founder of the American nudist movement * Marcel Barthel (born 1990), German professional wrestler *Max Barthel (1893–1975) German author * Mona Barthel (born 1990), German tennis player *Thomas Barthel (1923–1997), German ethnologist and epigrapher *Trond Barthel (born 1970), Norwegian champion pole-vaulter * Barthel Beham (1502–1540), German engraver, miniaturist, and painter *Barthel Schink (1927–1944), German youth member of the Ehrenfeld Group, an anti-Nazi resistance group Other *Barthel, Saskatchewan, Canada * Barthel scale, a scale used to measure performance in basic activ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Routledge
Katherine Maria Routledge (), née Pease (11 August 1866 – 13 December 1935), was an English archaeologist and anthropologist who, in 1914, initiated and carried out much of the first true survey of Easter Island. She was the second child of Kate and Gurney Pease, and was born into a wealthy Quaker family in Darlington, County Durham, northern England. She graduated from Somerville Hall (now Somerville College, Oxford), with Honours in Modern History in 1895, and for a while taught courses through the Extension Division and at Darlington Training College. After the Second Boer War, she traveled to South Africa with a committee to investigate the resettlement of single working women from England to South Africa. In 1906 she married William Scoresby Routledge. The couple went to live among the Kikuyu people of what was then British East Africa, and in 1910 jointly published a book of their research entitled ''With A Prehistoric People''. Easter Island In 1910 the Routledges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngaꞌara
Ngaꞌara The name Ngaꞌara has been variously spelled ''Gnaara, Gaara, Ngaara, Nga-Ara, Gahara,'' and ''Gobara.'' The letter ''g'' is a common convention in the Pacific for the ''ng''-sound , and Roussel, the one who transcribed the name as ''Gahara,'' frequently used ''h'' for glottal stop. ''Gobara'' may have been a typo for ''Gahara.'' Routledge's informants, some of whom had known the king, supported a pronunciation of ''Ngaꞌara.'' (reigned from the death of his father, Kai Makoꞌi ca. 1835 to his own death just before 1860) was the last great '' ꞌariki,'' or paramount chief, of Easter Island, and the last master of rongorongo, the Easter Island script. Before becoming king, Ngaꞌara ran a ''hare rongorongo'' (rongorongo school) at ꞌAnakena Bay. Generally fathers would teach their sons and any other boys who were interested, and Ngaꞌara was the most famous teacher on the island. Boys would study three to five months to learn rongorongo. At the time he beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rongorongo Text S
Text S of the rongorongo corpus, the larger of two tablets in Washington and therefore also known as the Great or Large Washington tablet, is one of two dozen surviving rongorongo texts. Other names S is the standard designation, from Barthel (1958). Fischer (1997) refers to it as RR16. LocationDepartment of Anthropology , , Washington. Catalog A129774 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grottaferrata
Grottaferrata () is a small town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Rome, situated on the lower slopes of the Alban Hills, south east of Rome. It has grown up around the Abbey of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata, founded in 1004. Nearby communes include Frascati, Rocca di Papa, Marino and Rome. History The history of Grottaferrata identifies largely with that of the Basilian Monastery of Santa Maria, founded here in 1004 by Saint Nilus the Younger. The founding legend narrates that, at the spot where the abbey now stands, the Virgin Mary appeared and bade him found a church in her honour. From Gregory, the powerful Count of Tusculum, father of Popes Benedict VIII and John XIX, Nilus obtained the site, which had been a Roman villa, where among the ruins there remained a low edifice of ''opus quadratum'' that had been a tomb but had been converted to a Christian oratory in the fourth century. Its iron window grates gave the site the name, first of ''Cryptaferrata'' ("ironb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braine-le-Comte
Braine-le-Comte (; nl, ’s-Gravenbrakel, ; wa, Brinne-e-Hinnot) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. On January 1, 2018, Braine-le-Comte had a total population of 21,649. The total area is which gives a population density of 260 inhabitants per km². The municipality consists of the following districts: Braine-le-Comte, Hennuyères, Henripont, Petit-Rœulx-lez-Braine, Ronquières, and Steenkerque. The Ronquières inclined plane at the Canal du Centre is in the municipality of Braine-Le Comte. History On August 3, 1692, during the Nine Years War, the French army defeated a joint English-Dutch-German army in the Battle of Steenkerque in the current municipality of Braine-le-Comte. Postal history The Braine-le-Comte post-office opened before 1830. It used postal code 22 with bars (before 1864) and 53 with points (before 1874). The Hennuyères post office opened on 6 November 1865. It used postal code 161 with points (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thespesia Populnea
''Thespesia populnea'', commonly known as the portia tree (), Pacific rosewood, Indian tulip tree, or milo, among other names, is a species of flowering plant belonging to the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is a tree found commonly on coasts around the world. Although it is confirmed to be native only to the Old World tropics, other authorities consider it to have a wider, possibly pantropical native distribution. It is thought to be an invasive species in Florida and Brazil. Distribution ''Thespesia populnea'' is native to tropical coastlines and is adapted for oceanic dispersal and growth in island environments. It is known from both coasts of Africa, tropical Asia, northern Australia, the Pacific Islands (including Hawaii), the tropical Pacific coast of the Americas from Mexico south to Colombia, the West Indies, and Florida in the United States. Its exact native distribution has been debated, with most authorities considering it to only be native to the Old World tropics, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
