portrait of this blog's author - by Stephen Blackman 2008

Saturday, November 30, 2024

Mystery objects . . . . . The OATH SKULL


A 16th century German 'oath skull' (a human skull on which defendants swore their oath in Vehmic courts) engraved with the 'magical' Roman 'Sator square', mysterious palindromic word-squares found across the Roman world, comprising the words


                               SATOR, AREPO, TENET, OPERA, ROTAS 


 

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