L'Aiola nel Gran Carro di BolsenaImmagine tratta dal sito della Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per l’area metropolitana di Roma e la provincia di Rieti
Posted on 08/10/2024 8:00:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
At the underwater archaeology site of Gran Carro di Bolsena in Aiola, Italy, divers found an ancient clay figurine pegged to be from the 9th or 10th century BC...
A clay figurine has spent millennia incomplete, waiting at the bottom of a lake for its long-dead craftsman to finish the Iron Age-era statuette.
During work at the underwater archaeological site of Gran Carro di Bolsena in Aiola, Italy, researchers pulled the rudimentary clay creation from the volcanic Lake Bolsena. The unfinished clay figure of a woman, dating from between the 10th and 9th centuries BC, looks more like a first draft than a ready-made piece of art...
The feminine-looking, palm-sized statuette is so fresh that it "still shows the marks of the fingerprints" of its maker, according to a translated statement from the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Landscape, part of Italy's Ministry of Cultural Heritage, and the imprint of a plot of fabric under the chest offers the best sign that the figurine was likely "dressed" at one point...
The volcanic rich area Gran Carro di Bolsena has a bit of an unknown history. Divers have helped to start piecing together that history, which wasn't really on the archaeological radar until 1991 when researchers showed that the pile of shapeless stones that make up Aiola are linked to the presence of hot thermal water springs, and that wooden poles and ceramic fragments on the southwest side of the lake tie to the early Iron Age.
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L'Aiola nel Gran Carro di BolsenaImmagine tratta dal sito della Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per l’area metropolitana di Roma e la provincia di Rieti
Not FRESH fingerprints. Old fingerprints still vivid.
If this guy is selling fresh bread, I don’t want any.
Reminds me of an X-files episode, “The Lazarus Bowl.” The story line was that a Christ called Lazarus forth from the tomb a potter making a bowl nearby inadvertently made a rudimentary phonograph recording of Christ’s words in the surface of the bowl which had the power to reanimate the dead.
Yeah. I’m like, what, a thief of archaeological artifacts is coming back?
I love that ep. Hollywood A.D.
“I am the bearded cow-like sea beast.”
I’m not sure I’ve seen that, but if it was from the original series (not the reboot, which I’ve mostly not seen) I’ve probably just forgotten.
https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Lazarus_Bowl
It’s usual for Carter et al to incorporate actual fringe literature into story ideas and plots.
The Lazarus Bowl
https://www.mysteriesoftheunexplained.com/content/LazarusBowlContent.htm
Did it have a Swimbaits XPS Z9R Perch hooked on anywhere? If is, it’s mine.
I spent a day and a half and got a nasty case of Acanthamoeba keratitis on top of it all bare lung diving looking for that.
They were not fresh fingerprints, they were only fingerprints. Another idiot editor.
So is this really a legend or is it a made up for the show?
Btw the ep is called Hollywood A.D.
What, they didn’t have a Cabelas in Aiola?
“They were not fresh fingerprints”
^
The editor could have been more accurate by changing the headline to “clear” fingerprints.
But there’s a big difference between “fingerprints”—and what was more likely—in the forensic field: “fingermarks”.
“fresh” This is journalism?
Yes, it is.
Uh, no.
Thanks!
My pleasure.
There was something like this some years ago, that one was a clay disk / tablet with an inscription on one side, but I think it was in WW news or some other checkstand tabloid.
Boy is that interesting. I thought it was just made up for the show.
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