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The Pyrgi Tablets (dated c. 500 BC) are three golden plates inscribed with a bilingual Phoenician–Etruscan dedicatory text. They are the oldest historical source documents from Italy, predating Roman hegemony, and are rare examples of texts in these languages.
Mnemosyne (1881), a pre-Raphaelite interpretation of the goddess of memory by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Günther Zuntz made the most complete survey of gold tablets discovered up to 1971 (at Thurii, Crete, and elsewhere), categorizing them into three groups that have become the typological standard.
Glass. With golden caps: Tablet sealings: Thebes, Nippur, Ur, Subeidi, Assur, Aqar Quf Third Kassite Style/Isin II Style: Iraq: Animals or monster scenes, a few involving humans. marru. Linear tendency: Cylinder seals: Soft stones and quartz. Gold caps flourish. Drill used less than in Second Kassite seals. Tablet and envelope sealings
In the 1830s, an inscribed gold tablet was unearthed at the ancient Greek site of Petelia near Strongoli in Calabria. Little is known of the circumstances of the find nor of its provenance subsequent to the find, before it was acquired by the British Museum from the archaeologist and collector James Millingen in 1843.
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The Desert Night Camouflage pattern is a two-color grid camouflage pattern used by the United States military during the Gulf War. It was designed to aid soldiers in concealment from Soviet-based night vision devices (NVDs). [1] The pattern is now considered obsolete due to the increase in capability of foreign night vision devices. [2]
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