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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 3:00 pm
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 3:35 pm
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 3:55 pm
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 4:03 pm
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Death By Kaiju To be fair that's something I never considered, but seems obvious. :s But the fact it's II then X wouldn't make sense, the larger valued letter always comes first.
just to be picky, thats not true. larger comes first when adding, but after if subtracting. X||= 12 ||X=8 or more commonly seen on old grandfather clocks, |V=4, V|=11
okay now to the pendant. off first glance, i wouldn't think it was just numerals beacuse the format. romans were in lines, not.......hmm i just thought of something sweatdrop if they were numbers, they aren't roman, but could be anothers. older. to find the name, i'd have to dig up my old history book so i could then try and do research on it ti be sure....... but hmm......quite a puzzle now. many things on it could be many different things.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 4:09 pm
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monckey77 Death By Kaiju To be fair that's something I never considered, but seems obvious. :s But the fact it's II then X wouldn't make sense, the larger valued letter always comes first. doing a quick look up on runes, it's possible to be of viking runes... http://www.crystalcavern.com/media/runes.jpgIsa Isa Gebo? iig Gebo/Gifu meaning Gift/Partnership Isa meaning Ice/Power Since runes are read from right to left... it's a rune invoking the gift of ice powers.
this was something else i'd considered, but was thrown off by the repeating of the isa. do you know if repetition is a frequent occurence?
and thanks for everyone's help. the shape at the top, to me at least, looks spidery. what does it look like to anyone else?
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 4:11 pm
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BSPBleach Death By Kaiju To be fair that's something I never considered, but seems obvious. :s But the fact it's II then X wouldn't make sense, the larger valued letter always comes first. just to be picky, thats not true. larger comes first when adding, but after if subtracting. X||= 12 ||X=8 or more commonly seen on old grandfather clocks, |V=4, V|=11 okay now to the pendant. off first glance, i wouldn't think it was just numerals beacuse the format. romans were in lines, not.......hmm i just thought of something sweatdrop if they were numbers, they aren't roman, but could be anothers. older. to find the name, i'd have to dig up my old history book so i could then try and do research on it ti be sure....... but hmm......quite a puzzle now. many things on it could be many different things.
realised that after i posted! aha, drinking does that to a man.
if you could have a look i'd really appreciate it!
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 4:11 pm
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lol a new since i've actually read monckeys post >.>
It does look similar......(well exactly but whatever) one of the reason i thought it might be that older numerals, is the two setss of line atop the || and X. they look almost exactly like the japanese ichi and nee, (not saying its those, just the first comparison that came to mind) so I was thinknig the box was numbers. if i remember correctly, if it were these numbers they square would be 2 under it would 20, then it'd be 3, then 100. though i dont see what good it'd do........
random thought that doesnt make since, but maybe a map of some sort? thinking the pic on top, that you think looks like a spider, reminds me of an old pic i saw of the sunrise, maybe for direction? and the rest are roads and a building or location..........im not sure. like i said it was a random thought that popped in just now.......
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 4:13 pm
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Death By Kaiju BSPBleach Death By Kaiju To be fair that's something I never considered, but seems obvious. :s But the fact it's II then X wouldn't make sense, the larger valued letter always comes first. just to be picky, thats not true. larger comes first when adding, but after if subtracting. X||= 12 ||X=8 or more commonly seen on old grandfather clocks, |V=4, V|=11 okay now to the pendant. off first glance, i wouldn't think it was just numerals beacuse the format. romans were in lines, not.......hmm i just thought of something sweatdrop if they were numbers, they aren't roman, but could be anothers. older. to find the name, i'd have to dig up my old history book so i could then try and do research on it ti be sure....... but hmm......quite a puzzle now. many things on it could be many different things. realised that after i posted! aha, drinking does that to a man. if you could have a look i'd really appreciate it!
dont take this thee wrong way, but something like this.....you couldn't stop me from looking into!! rofl
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 4:18 pm
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 4:21 pm
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 4:29 pm
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Assuming the picture is meant to be looked at from a 90 degree angle, the middle symbol looked vaguely like a stave from Ogham, but there's no stave that's got two strokes on the left, and three on the right.
BSPBleach Death By Kaiju To be fair that's something I never considered, but seems obvious. :s But the fact it's II then X wouldn't make sense, the larger valued letter always comes first. just to be picky, thats not true. larger comes first when adding, but after if subtracting. X||= 12 ||X=8 or more commonly seen on old grandfather clocks, |V=4, V|=11 okay now to the pendant. off first glance, i wouldn't think it was just numerals beacuse the format. romans were in lines, not.......hmm i just thought of something sweatdrop if they were numbers, they aren't roman, but could be anothers. older. to find the name, i'd have to dig up my old history book so i could then try and do research on it ti be sure....... but hmm......quite a puzzle now. many things on it could be many different things.
I don't think IIX would be used for 8 - VIII's normally used. As an FYI, the vertical stroke used in Roman numerals for 1 is just a capital I, so you can use it as normal.
monckey77 Death By Kaiju To be fair that's something I never considered, but seems obvious. :s But the fact it's II then X wouldn't make sense, the larger valued letter always comes first. doing a quick look up on runes, it's possible to be of viking runes... http://www.crystalcavern.com/media/runes.jpgIsa Isa Gebo? iig Gebo/Gifu meaning Gift/Partnership Isa meaning Ice/Power Since runes are read from right to left... it's a rune invoking the gift of ice powers.
That seems pretty unlikely. I doubt runes were read purely by taking one meaning and idiosyncratically ramming them together. Why would the two Is be put together, but the X is given a seperate "box", and why is there an uneven number of strokes above the two? Not only that, but the characters on the "left" look like they've got slight curves at the bottom: runes were largely straight-lines.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 4:29 pm
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 4:38 pm
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monckey77 Death By Kaiju not sure where we got the idea it was from a school? for more context. live in england, in hertfordshire. the place is was found was a semi-private field, close to a golf club but not used for golfing. so private land. i'll ask my dad more about where he found it if i can. also important to note it's over 14 years since he found it. for most of my life i've always had it with me. i'm still considering that it was produced recently by the fact both sides look damn near symmetrical to my eyes. still if the symbols mean something it's interesting! Sorry field instantly reminded me of school, so I guess I subliminally stuck that in there XD if it's symmetrical it was most likely a tourist object, but yeah it is nice to know what it means. Mitsch brings up a good point, which dismisses my statement, further looking up is in due! -goes off googling-
though the symmetry could have been established by someone using a stencil to graft.
i agree with mitsh, i'm not entirely sure that they are anglo saxon runes, just because of the II. may just be a non descript pattern.
and yes, the part with the metal at the top is the top of the pendant; my picture took at an odd angle, haha.
cheers for the help so far!
edit: other things i've noticed- the carving is very very light. when held up to a really bright light, it's impossible to make out anything, the jade looks translucent.
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 4:47 pm
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