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- Mon Mar 21, 2016 11:34 am
- Forum: The Diadochi
- Topic: Cassander (and Olympias)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 39284
Re: Cassander (and Olympias)
Alexias, the trouble with the Antipatrid/Alexander animosity story is that there is little evidence for it in the undoubted actions we have reported, though much in the comment and interpretation. For instance, Alexander is suspicious of Antipatros and his sons yet Iollas remains his cup-bearer, sim...
- Fri Mar 18, 2016 11:12 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
- Views: 551359
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
I agree, Zeb, there seems no correlation with status, Philip II or III has only 5 nail heads as does the nobles Lyson and Kalikles; nor chronological Verghina is late fourth and Lyson/Kallikles late third with Kastas in between. I think Taphoi is right and that it is conditioned by the size of the d...
- Thu Mar 17, 2016 12:52 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
- Views: 551359
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
He shoots... It is 100% certain that neither Andrew nor the ‘Team’ will modify their views, however ... I would conclude that the C-14 results are most consistent with a date in the last quarter of the 4th century BC, but they are not conclusive in isolation. However, in the context of the rest of t...
- Tue Mar 15, 2016 7:33 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
- Views: 551359
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Good find, I was not aware of Tantalos so yes things are once again ambiguous. The extra two bodies are inhumations however and they with the neonate must belong to the last 70BC phase when the floor was ripped up and the tomb filled, it is not usual to leave corpses rotting uncovered; C14 testing t...
- Tue Mar 15, 2016 6:12 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
- Views: 551359
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
‘Homeric’ is a rather unfortunate term, Zeb, as it can apply to the about which Homer wrote LHIII (where the nobility were generally interred) or when his poetry was composed c. 8th Century BC (by which time cremation was in vogue and appears in the poems). The initial deposition must have been the ...
- Tue Mar 15, 2016 1:03 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
- Views: 551359
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
The two tovima articles actually talk sense and eschew the hype (even in Googletranslate) thanks Gepd. It is good to see the third century getting a mention at long last; I can't agree with the complete interpretation. Were this a heroon for a re-buried Rhesos or similarly aged Hero one would not ex...
- Mon Mar 14, 2016 8:31 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
- Views: 551359
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
I wonder how long straws remain clutchable?
- Mon Mar 14, 2016 4:02 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
- Views: 551359
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
The author of the piece must truly be a moron, the C14 dates almost completely exclude the life of Alexander (he was ten when the 2 sigma section ends with the rest of his life falling in a 2% probability section) and the rest is just the old 'Roman' strawman. The pictures are nice but the text is j...
- Mon Mar 14, 2016 11:54 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
- Views: 551359
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
I think Sveshtari is identified with the homeland of the Getai with whom Lysimachos seems to have established friendly relations following the debacle of his invasion which saw either his own capture that of his son, Agathokles or the two of them depending on the source. Dromichaites released him in...
- Sun Mar 13, 2016 4:43 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
- Views: 551359
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Gepd, the context for Antigonos constructing the monument would be the establishment, or re-establishment, of the dynasty, there were already dead members to inter including his father Demetrios whom he received from Seleukos in an urn, Keraunos rotted headless on a field unmourned. The paper is int...
- Sun Mar 13, 2016 1:36 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
- Views: 551359
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Numbers and percentages certainly make things look scientific so let’s examine the relative probabilities, but using the way C14 dating works, which is without bias; there is no ‘normal distribution’ any date within the 1 standard deviation band has the same probability as any other (this is fallaci...
- Sat Mar 12, 2016 9:41 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
- Views: 551359
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
A rejoinder on the C-14 is pending, but on this 'Arelabon' sideshow, just look at the Millars' photo, can anyone see the letter cluster, the eta is pretty clear but there are no other characters I can discern; the dating is therefore between 1970 and 2016 +-30yrs
- Fri Mar 11, 2016 3:14 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
- Views: 551359
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
The data you have presented does not show that, if there is more disclose it, no probabilities are attached to the graph posted. The data definitely does not support the archaeologists' theory unless you want to believe in a fire from 40 year old wood the lower date of the first peak would coincide ...
- Fri Mar 11, 2016 1:07 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
- Views: 551359
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
So what the curve actually shows is the uncalibrated result on the y-axis as a thick black line (2250 BP +- 30) then a further 30 years either side of that giving 2250 +- 60 years; this is then mapped to the calibration curve (blue wavy line) which gives two possible ranges 383-355 and 288-232. If t...
- Thu Mar 10, 2016 8:22 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
- Views: 551359
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Still not finding any detail on the C14 results ie the probability curves, are they out there only the last time anyone tried second guessing the results from the announcements they have been shown to be hopelessly wrong :roll: Perhaps as much due to the announcements' built in layer of disinformati...