Monolithic artifacts of antediluvian culture. Part 2

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Part 1

In this part, we will consider monolithic bowls, baths and statues from various types of rocks of different hardness.

Now let's move on to the round stone monolithic bowls. Perhaps I'll start with what such artists of the 18th century paint on their canvases.

Details from paintings by Pannini and Hubert:

Babolovskaya bowl in St. Petersburg Granite bowl in Lustgarten, Berlin It was once polished to a shine. 1830 Porphyry bowl in the Vatican, Rome. The bowl officially belonged to the emperor Nero, in which he bathed. Pay attention to the central volumetric round detail - the same one on the bowl in the Hermitage

Screenshot from the video above: And this "ancient Roman" bowl from the Basilica of San Zeno, Verona, Italy Another one destroyed in Templum Pacis, Rome: And this bowl from Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy

Roman bowl at Palazzo altemps in Rome

Etruscan porphyry bowl

The Hermitage again …

Fontana di via degli Staderari, Rome

"Fountain of Turtles" in Rome. 1580-1588 Fontana del Nicchione in Rome. Granite Bowl Now consider the stone baths. Here they are on the canvases of post-catastrophic artists.

Well, now the material evidence. Saint-Petersburg, Russia:

Granite Baths from Vatican Museum, Rome, Italy

And this is … an inverted column of St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg. Find the difference in handling Inverted Column in Baalbek.

But this bath is very interesting. In modern technical terms, it contains such an element of machining as tubular drilling:

Dimensions:

Bath found during excavations at Villa Adrianna, Rome.

And the last bath from the Vatican Museum is simply amazing. An ancient Egyptian bathtub brought to Rome, made of rare black Aswan granite, polished like a mirror. The veins enter the volumetric lion and move on.

Chipping:

Dimensions:

Fontana del Mascherone di Santa Sabina, Rome

Antique granite baths from Boboli Gardens, Florence, Italy

This bathtub has traces of erosion. A seam is visible inside:

Granite bath from the Baths of Caracalla in Piazza Farnese, Rome, Italy

Altar of the Basilica of Saint Bartolomeo, Rome

Granite bathtubs at the entrance to the altes museum, Berlin, Germany Flowerbed in a city park Louvre, Paris, France

Sanssouci Park, Potsdam, Germany

Marble bathtub with rings. 19th century

Quarry in Aswan, two rough baths, Egypt. They prove that all these granite bathtubs are not cast from artificial granite, but they are machined. The dimensions of this bath are clearly not for human height.

Now let's look at the stone busts and statues. As already mentioned in the first part, regardless of the hardness of the stone and the complexity of the work, everything was done impeccably.

Porphyry statue of Trajan from the Vatican Museum

Porphyry statue of Emperor Hadrian found during excavations at Caesarea, Israel.

Porphyry statue of Marcus Aurelius in the Old Museum, Berlin

Porphyry statue of Trajan or Hadrian, Vatican Museum. Even after so many years, the statue has not lost its luster.

By what criteria they determined who the statue depicts - I find it difficult to answer.

Bust of a priest from the Vatican Museum. Look first at the quality of the polish and smoothness, then at the chipped hands, again at the bust, and again at the raw structure of the stone. Think about how you can do it manually.

Porphyry bust of Minerva. Louvre Museum, Paris

Basalt bust of Sappho from the Vatican Museum

Basalt face of a boy, 440 BC, vatican museum

Basalt section of the statue of Aphrodite from the Metropolitan Museum, New York

Basalt ancient Roman statues

Basalt statue of Aphrodite, California Science Museum, Los Angeles, USA. See how the transparent fabric is transferred. And this basalt. Space level of technology.

Diorite statues from the Vatican Museum Diorite statue of Pharaoh Khafre, Cairo Museum Basalt bust from the British Museum, London Stone lions, which were used as fountains, deserve special attention.

Ancient Egyptian granite lions from Sudan at the British Museum, London, UK. This one without a hole in the mouth, and most likely just decorative

Two identical basalt lions under the Vatican Museum with holes in their mouths were once used as fountains.

Fountain Lions in Rome

Basalt lion from the Vatican with traces of erosion

Granite Lions from Rome

Lions at Plazza Plebiscito, Naples

"Fountain of Lions" in Naples. Monolithic granite bowl.

"Aquarium lion" in the estate Arkhangelskoye, Moscow Granite lions near the Pushkin Museum, St. Petersburg Granite lion in Peterhof, St. Petersburg, Russia

Granite lions at the Laval house from the English Embankment, St. Petersburg

Granite ancient Egyptian lion in the backyard of the Cairo Museum, Egypt

Just a cosmic level of processing ancient Roman lion from green basalt, the ball is made of marble. Louvre Museum.

Pay attention to the unevenness of the surface on which the lion is standing.

Let's take a closer look and find an interesting thing …

Granite lion from the flooded palace of Cleopatra in Alexandria

One could show the same lions with balls from different parts of Eurasia, but they are all, as a rule, made of marble (that is, soft stone). In this article, I tried to collect and show artifacts only from hard rocks of stone and also push to the idea that, based on the mass character and almost complete identity, it will no longer be possible to say that all this was done for years and with the help of thousands of slaves, rather it pulls for mass production, if on the "special order of the powers that be."

Ancient Roman stone leopard from the Vatican Museum

Gnatny Sphynx from the embankment of St. Petersburg

Granite Sphinx from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Basalt Sphinx against the background of monolithic granite columns in Diocletian's palace in Split, Croatia

And finally - statues in the Egyptian style from different materials from different museums around the world:

My personal small intermediate conclusions - the so-called "ancient Egyptian" and the so-called "ancient Roman" cultures were connected not only as a combination for the exchange of cultural experience and as a symbiosis of two different principles (the race of "egg-headed" and Negroids in Egypt, and conventionally "arias" in ancient culture "), but also by the level of technology. Moreover, in the" Egyptian "culture, the level of detail was rather symbolic, with high technologies of stone processing. but at the same time with the skill of an adult experienced craftsman. goat legs, etc.) - everything is conveyed most realistically, right down to the hairs on the skin or folds of wrinkles on the forehead outside depending on the hardness of the stone and the complexity of the work.

To be continued

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