Tag Archives: ancient

2015-07-19
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Cone mosaic in Uruk, Mesopotamia, 3000 BC.

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2014-11-20
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The South Asian copper plates of Kollam, from year 849. More info.

Image from here, via iLKke.

2014-11-03
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Hebrew ASCII from the 1200s. Or micrography, as it’s also called.

On this page, the scribe has identified himself as Eliezer son of Samuel by creating a calligram in the shape of the letters of his own name. The calligram (lines of text of unequal length written in parallel rows and forming a design) is a continuation of the text of the previous page concerning the laws of the holiday of Sukkot.

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2014-09-25
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Los Prismos Basálticos, Mexico. Nature goes blocky.

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2014-08-31
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tessellationappreciation:

So exciting – standing on #mosaic #tiles circa AD79 at #Pompeii – #tessellation #fromwhereistand #history #feet #toes #italia (at Pompeii, Italia)

2014-06-28
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Devils Postpile, USA. Nature’s own hexagonal tessellations, square blocks and straight pillars.

2014-05-05
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Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland. Although humans are arguably the most digital animal, sometimes nature does some very square & hexagonal things..

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2014-03-02
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Four of Six plates on a Sami i.e. Laplander Runic Calendar. The Calendar is carved in reindeer horn. Eiríkr Magnússon suggests a date between 1230 – 1391 CE for the prototype of this particular calendar.

2014-02-14
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Woodcut – Graphic poem 1503.

2014-01-25
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Bedcover from 1219 (Sweden), via.

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