Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Friday, June 10, 2016
Saturday, May 21, 2016
Stars of David in a Roman Mosaic in Tuscany
On oct 6 2015 Rossella Lorenzi, archaeology correspondent for Discovery News, published an article about an Ancient Roman Mosaic found in a small village named Capraia e Limit, in Tuscany, dating to the second half of the 4th century AD, including few Stars of David in a repeated pattern. These Stars of David are white hexagons with black triangles and in the middle of each hexagon there's a red square surrounding a red cross.
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Christian,
Hexagram,
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Palestinians Attempt to Appropriate "Star Of David" As Muslim Symbol
Daniel Greenfield Published an article about the Palestinians' claim on the official Facebook page of Fatah that the Star Of David was used in Arabic culture before the establishment of the state of Israel.
The picture there is from:
Hacı Bektaş Veli Complex, Hacı Bektaş, Nevsehir, Turkey
See:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nurettin/4258283211
The picture there is from:
Hacı Bektaş Veli Complex, Hacı Bektaş, Nevsehir, Turkey
See:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nurettin/4258283211
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news
Saturday, April 30, 2016
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Star of David as a Caucasian Albanian Symbol
"In 313 AD the Rutuls as a part of Caucasian Albania officially adopted Christianity. At present the Rutuls are Sunni... Before transition of Rutuls to Islam, they professed Judaism along with Christianity: in some Rutul settlements there still
are cave drawings of an hexagram star. People call there settlements Judicial, even though officially they are Rutul...Several Rutul and Tsakhur settlements in Rutul Rayon are called Jewish by older generation. They are: Kala, Mukhrek,
Djilikhur (Rutul villages), Gelmets, Muslakh (Tsakhur villages) and several others... Star of David, symbols of the sun and rolling star are common symbols in Dagestan as well as in modern Azerbaijan in
the territory of historical Caucasian Albania. They are depicted on the gravestone of Hasan Jalal-Dowla – Albanian king,
buried in Gandzasar... In the museum of Rutul village there is a copper dish with Albanian inscription, a Star of David, other symbols and
an animal with wings and a dog’s head".
Source:
Musaevna, Makhmudova Svetlana. "It is my Cross." Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 6.6 S2 (2015): 236.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Two Roman Star of David engravings discovered in Egypt
Two Star of David engravings were discovered in Egypt in a Roman Temple in the southern city of Aswan, which dates back to the 3rd century B.C, located in the Elephantine Island:
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archaeology,
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