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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.
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.
English: This is the upper left portion of the first Franklin-Folger chart of the Gulf Stream printed in London in 1769 and held by the LOC. The commons has this chart as File:Franklin-Folger chart of the Gulf Stream LOC 88696412jpg 30 May 2018, publication authorized by Benjamin Franklin and Timothy Folger.
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GSSPs use red markers, SABSs use green markers, and GSSAs use purple markers. [ 4 ] Once a GSSP boundary has been agreed upon, a 'golden spike' is driven into the geologic section to mark the precise boundary for future geologists (though in practice the 'spike' need neither be golden nor an actual spike).
The Emerald Tablet, the Smaragdine Table, or the Tabula Smaragdina [a] is a compact and cryptic Hermetic text. [1] It was a highly regarded foundational text for many Islamic and European alchemists. [2]
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. Zuntz presented [ 5 ] transcribed text coupled with a reconstruction, and interpreted their religious foundation as Pythagorean rather than Orphic ...