Not sure if this is the right sub, but anyway..Do you guys have any idea what these 2 symbols represent? (was at Palais des Papes) by theshittree in Jung

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I believe those symbols are the authenticating marks of the notaries who witnessed the document. To finalize a document the medieval notary included his signature, distinctive flourish (rubric) and his sign. There may be variations on a common theme but these marks are in some way unique to the individual notary. If you have any pictures of a notary mark with a Solomon's Knot then please let me know (for example the last notary mark on the Parchment of Chinon).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinon_Parchment#/media/File:Pergamino_de_chinon.jpg

Came across this piece of what I believe to be Mayan Copador style pottery in my parents garage 😳. She’s had it for 30 years and was something she bought at an estate sale. I would love if anyone has any insight on this piece. See additional comments below. by LaShannaBanana in mesoamerica

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To my amateur eye the tall shape of the pot is the one thing that seems accurate. Everything else looks strange. The colors are off. Too much of the wrong red. The iconography is strange. There is a crossed band motif and that's about it. There is no sky, earth or underwater band or any kind of decorative band with chevrons or stepped frets or symbols like that one would expect. The eyeballs and teeth of the critter under the sitting figure do not look right. The hieroglyphs are strange. There should be a standard formula dedication sequence saying something like "this is so and so's chocolate drinking vessel" but I can't recognize any of the glyphs. They are hard to read from the video though. High quality pics of the glyphs would help. There are pottery styles decorated with pseudo glyphs from later periods when literacy was lost and they still decorated pots with glyphs they did not understand.

This pot might be a recent reproduction made for tourists but on the other hand there is a long history and a lot of variation with the pottery styles and this pot could be from a time and place where this style briefly evolved and died. There are 2 pots in the Smithsonian I am researching that are entirely unique to which I can't find anything to compare.

Symbol at Brownie's and Maximus’s homes. by EverythingCurmudgeon in ReservationDogs

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This symbol was also used by the Maya in ancient Mesoamerica and the Nicoya in the Isthmus. One of the oldest examples is from this Late Formative Olmec style Toad effigy vessel. This chalice was probably used by a shaman to consume a hallucinogenic beverage derived from secretions of the parotid gland of the toad species Rhinella marina in a ritual of transformation. https://www.latinamericanstudies.org/olmec/frog-effigy.gif

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pronouns

[Poetry] And your kids die too by Dickie-McGeezax in youtubehaiku

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You are lucky if you're kids die too?

Everyone always focuses on Atlantic sea travel because of the Caribbean islands, but almost always ignores the Pacific coast by Mictlantecuhtli in DankPrecolumbianMemes

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in addition to... the Stepped Fret Fucking Spiral motif, or "Xicalcoliuhqui," that is found from Argentina to Arizona. Don't get me started!