Torso of a statue being excavated, Notre Dame, Paris© Denis Gliksman, INRAP
Posted on 12/09/2024 3:50:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv
According to an ARTNews report, archaeologists have uncovered some 1,035 fragments of historic artworks beneath Notre Dame Cathedral, which was engulfed in flames and nearly destroyed in spring of 2019. The five-year reconstruction process following the conflagration, however, has given archaeologists a unique and unprecedented opportunity to dig underneath the church, which was built beginning in 1163. Beginning in February of 2022, a team from the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research were given permission to excavate only 16 inches beneath the nearly 900-year-old cathedral's stone floor—the same depth as the foundations for scaffolding required for construction work. The artworks they recovered include life-sized head and torso fragments of anthropomorphic limestone statues, a thirteenth-century jubé, or partition used to separate a choir from its audience, and a lead sarcophagus likely belonging to French Renaissance poet Joachim du Bellay. The researchers also found remnants of medieval construction methods, including rope holds likely used for transport along the Seine River and iron clamps used to bind stones, some of which date to the cathedral's initial construction, confirming the structure as the first known Gothic cathedral to use iron as a building material. The team also found nearly 100 graves, many of them belonging to unidentified individuals, increasing Notre Dame's total number of burials to more than 500.
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Torso of a statue being excavated, Notre Dame, Paris© Denis Gliksman, INRAP
Like voices from the far past ...
Obviously they had Space Travel back then.
Notice the Blue-on-Blue Eyes of Spice Addiction............
Beautiful little sculpture.
That’s an odd looking torso. It looks like a head.
C’mon. It’s a head that identifies as a torso
Awesome
Yeah, who cares what the science says.
I may have muffed the caption.
BTTT
There was a cathedral I visited in England when I was stationed over there about the end of the cold war, they knew about the remains of a cathedral below the cathedral but when the dug a little deeper they found the remains of a third cathedral or church. I can’t remember what cathedral it was though, that was a long time ago.
Original article with paragraph breaks: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/more-than-1000-artifacts-discovered-beneath-notre-dame-cathedral-paris-1234725950/
Nice! Maybe Shrewsbury Church?
I can dig it!
But, O Notredamus, tell me more—which Rubble?
Barney Rubble?
Barney Fife?
Barney the fuzzy purple dinosaur?
bttt
Not nearly funny enough.
Not nearly funny enough.
It depends where yer at. "Spirit" is always in-spire-ing in one way or another. Would you settle for scary-unfunny?
After all, my posts are way worse on any given day. Right up there in the "TL DR" world of skip codes.
[Note to Vermont Lt: I added you in for a courtesy ping because I referenced a post of yours from this morning. That is all.]
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But, O Notredamus, tell me more -- which Rubble?
Barney Rubble?
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That reminds me... everyone knows that Jesus was betrayed by a kiss. Really now, what could have in-spired that?
Well, we also know that bad characters are triggered by "wrong" messages on t-shirts and ball caps (e.g. wear MAGA merch and take your chances).
See what I mean here? It's like my old tagline, IIRC, "The pun is mightier than the S-word: Goy to the World!"
Matthew 26
48 Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
49 And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.
50 And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.
51 And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear.
52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
Triggered by a ballcap, what do you figure!? Why should anyone be the least bit surprised? That's really low, but the betrayer was... the thief who ran off with the money, after all.
Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he
But, O Notredamus, tell me more -- which Rubble?
Barney Rubble?
According to legend, kissing the stone endows the kisser with the gift of the gab (great eloquence or skill at flattery).
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The ritual of kissing the Blarney Stone, according to the castle's proprietors, has been performed by "millions of people", including "world statesmen, literary giants [and] legends of the silver screen".[8]
The kiss, however, is not casually achieved. To touch the stone with one's lips, the participant must ascend to the castle's peak, then lean over backwards on the parapet's edge. This is traditionally achieved with the help of an assistant. Although the parapet is now fitted with wrought-iron guide rails and protective crossbars, the ritual can still trigger attacks of acrophobia.
Before the safeguards were installed, the kiss was performed with real risk to life and limb, as participants were grasped by the ankles and dangled bodily from the height.[11]
It's a double-edged s-word, though, because not only is the [witty] meaning explained at the top of that page, "gift of the gab" itself is linked to Wiktionary, which provides not one but three translations for Yiddish, the "language of the Jews".
Interested in discovering the literal meanings, I investigated a little further, leaving me to ponder the first offering. It turns out that the last word leaves open a couple of options. Google Translate rolled with
Sweetened by humour and flavoured by wit, it's like the message hidden under a long rock wall, in a RMS Queen Mary Benson's candy box, under a piece of black, volcanic glass that had no earthly business in a Maine hayfield:
If you're reading this, you've gotten out. "And if you've come this far, maybe you're willing to come a little further...
... I could use a good man to help me get my project on wheels."
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BTW, there's a thread today for the "Sisters" scene, so perhaps the movie has already come to mind at this time. King based the prison on the old state prison in Thomaston, ME. This might have caused people to wonder why Buxton was referred to as "up there".
Geographically, Buxton is nowhere "up there" relative to Thomaston; it's down by Portland.
But remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies. It's right up there, even as the hope of 2000 years. Even remaining when bad characters go digging in the wrong place, where there's no hope.
If anyone is inspired to check street view for who's buried directly across from/under the big oak at the north end of a long "rock wall" of many stones (generation upon generation)...
It's BUCK's stone. Can't miss the entry sign. And being red, the headstone really stands out from the rest of the line-up.
The big oak at the North End lives at address 69, so if Mr. Buck were to receive any royal mail, 70 Mountain Hatchet Rd. would be his logical address. He might still be waiting though, instead of prying it up for himself, to see.
"Notre Dame Cathedral Fire Allows Archaeologists to Unearth Historic Artworks"Post 15: In the novella, "Red" was a large Irishman. Morgan Freeman did a good job, but it was an adaptation.
Always some excuse, eh?
It’s funnier in Russian - Barney Ruble
It’s kopek-setic...
Whew! Such a gift of blarney!
(S)he kisses the lips, Who gives a right answer.
https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Proverbs%2024%3A26
Rock on.
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