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[RING][ARTIFACT] Ch. 4 (@Shanghai, China)
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Gerri
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 		Oh, ok, I see what you all mean, it hadn't occurred to me that those 6 drawings might be landmarks in 6 different places, I just jumped around on links and found that page with the picture and the basilicas and the Column of Phocas and I thought "Hey, it's here!"

Sorry, my bad, but good to know that at least I was of help with one location! Very Happy

And that drawing on the bottom right corner of the page might be a tad bit difficult to find, does anyone else think? It just looks like a lot of sand or hills... Maybe sand dunes, though? A desert?

And something about those columns in the bottom left corner is nagging away at my brain. Hm.

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AUZ505 wrote:
I first thought 6 person --> 6 drawings --> 6 places (perhaps even from the 6 postcard locations: Madrid, London, Rio, Boston, ...).



danteIL wrote:
It looks to me like these are supposed to represent 6 different places.

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To escape their sight, we chose places where sport, playing, festivals and other special events often take place.


I suppose that the Roman Forum counts as a place like that. Others?


Didn't I see somewhere that the Toronto location from the postcard is the Bloor/Yonge subway station? I don't know that any sport, playing, festivals, etc. take place there...so is the theory wrong, or the location, or me Smile? Maybe this weekend (no time during the week...well, maybe Thursday afternoon) I should go to the station and see if I can see a labyrinth hiding there, heh...though I seem to recall another player saying he lives down the street from there?

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 		This seems so commonsensical that I'm surprised I didn't think of it first, yet at the same time, I'm kinda sceptical that it could be this easy...

Could the row of columns at the bottom of the document be a drawing of one of the sides of the Parthenon on the Acropolis...?



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Gerri wrote:
This seems so commonsensical that I'm surprised I didn't think of it first, yet at the same time, I'm kinda sceptical that it could be this easy...

Could the row of columns at the bottom of the document be a drawing of one of the sides of the Parthenon on the Acropolis...?



I've been wondering if finding these actual sites is important.. apparently, at each of them, there was a labyrinth hidden in plain site in the early 1900s, so there is a chance it might still be there.
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 		I wonder why the measurements are given in feet rather than in meters.
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 		Well, the six travellers woke up in parts of Europe, so I guess they would've learned the measurement system used there... I'm not too sure, but I don't think all the European countries use the metric system.

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 		True, although if they went through the trouble of writing in Esperanto as a universal language, why not use a universal system of measurement as well?
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 		When I'll get the chance, I ask the wife (She's a anthropology/archeology major, and lives for this stuff) what she can surmise from the images...

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lindoriel379 wrote:
True, although if they went through the trouble of writing in Esperanto as a universal language, why not use a universal system of measurement as well?


Wiki might have the answer to that. Smile

Apparently, the metric system was only recognised as the universal measurement system in the 1960s. Since the document was written around 1920, I guess for Jorge and co., there wasn't a universal measurement system yet.

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Gerri wrote:
This seems so commonsensical that I'm surprised I didn't think of it first, yet at the same time, I'm kinda sceptical that it could be this easy...

Could the row of columns at the bottom of the document be a drawing of one of the sides of the Parthenon on the Acropolis...?


I've been skeptical that all the illustrations could be Rome- for the same reason - too easy? But after a couple of days of scouring through art history books and searching images, I'm starting to believe the drawing might all refer to Rome- for the opposite reason - it shouldn't be this hard to match them to other locations.

The top left corner is believably St Peter's Basilica in Rome- though it doesn't show the cupola. And the middle picture on the right is completely convincingly the ruins of the Roman forum.

The other images still trouble me. The statue- just doesn't look Roman because there isn't enough leg showing and. . . what's on it's head? A crown? If so, it would have to be a sculpture made/ installed there after the Roman era. It's located in a place paved with bricks.
The basilica in the middle on the left side- that one is driving me crazy because it isn't enough like St. Peters to convince me, and it also isn't enough like any other church I can find. It looks like it's built on a high spot like a hill top.
The columns at the bottom could be the Parthenon- the capitols are right, but keep trying to convince myself they belong to this Temple of Poseidon in Greece with the remaining image on the right being an extension of the drawing to show the rocky shore and sea:
but it could, of course, be right in the Forum.

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 		There is no way the top left is St. Peter's...no, it can't be, but it is a church, and so is the one below it...the wife feels the lower one has a spanish influence, or at least thats what struck her...who knows

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Isaac Dodgson wrote:
There is no way the top left is St. Peter's...no, it can't be, but it is a church, and so is the one below it...the wife feels the lower one has a spanish influence, or at least thats what struck her...who knows

I totally rejected St. Peters at first as well. It's not a view you could realistically see of St. Peters- but if you can allow for some messed up persective, the pieces match. (my architectural jargon is going to fail me) The detail in the triangle part matches, the number of pilasters under the triangle match, with the three windows between them- right number, but inconsistent style at the top of windows. The dome isn't shown, but one of the little dome over a corner chapel might be what it shows, with the other statues that stick up there.
After staring at it for so long, it looks more like St Peters than not like it.

The image of the Forum is so convincing, though- so I want the others to be as convincing. Phoo.

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 		that "tower" on st. peter's is one of two, that are not as tall, and don't look like they are depicted in the sketch, the "triangle" (Pediment) is higher up with a small balcony in the center underneath, under the center window and even it's showing it from higher up the pediment is not the tallest part of the front facade, and the dome, which perhaps could be the tower in the back there is a good 4 times a big...no i still can't see St. Peter's but perhaps another of the same time period...

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Isaac Dodgson wrote:
that "tower" on st. peter's is one of two, that are not as tall, and don't look like they are depicted in the sketch, the "triangle" (Pediment) is higher up with a small balcony in the center underneath, under the center window and even it's showing it from higher up the pediment is not the tallest part of the front facade, and the dome, which perhaps could be the tower in the back there is a good 4 times a big...no i still can't see St. Peter's but perhaps another of the same time period...

I know what you mean. But after rejecting the St. Peter's idea at first, I've argued myself into it from the lack of any other available match that's even close.
There are details missing that should be there, but that might indicate it is a drawing done from memory at a later time and place.

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 		Remember the drawing is 100 years old - so it may not look exactly like the current site.
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