Re: Bronocice

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> By the way, I collect stamps. I wonder, are there other philatelists
> among us?
> Alexander>>
>

I also collected postage stamps at one time. My collection is now
sitting in our storage room. I haven't seen it in years.

> I guess problems with readind my post can occur if it is made in HTML
> format.
> I'll try to avoid it.
>

Gerry: Thank you. I guess my machine still hasn't learned how to read
HTML. Are you by chance using a Mac?

> Using the opportunity I'd like to draw your attention to some of the
> Bronocice
> pot's piculiarities: the picture of the vehicle is vertical and has
> the "plan
> composition" (we look at the body of the carriage from above [or
> below?] but at
> the wheels from side - an impossible projection, it's rather a draft
> than a real
> picture). The "plan composition" is a very rare feature. I can compare
> the pot's
> picture composition only to the composition of the IE chariots on the
> Bronze Age
> petroglyphs in Scandinavia or Altai. However the construction of the
> vehicles is
> principally different.
>

Gerry: The idea of the "wagon" or "chariot" being drawn from a bird's
eye view is not unique. I think it might simply be that it was drawn by
someone without a trained eye. I remember many years ago when I was
working in the family business that a client wanted an addition to her
three family tenament so that she could sell foodstuffs from her
window. We asked her to draw what she had in mind and she combined both
a two dimensional view WITH an aerial view! And I also remember when my
daughter was in 2nd grade and her teacher asked her to draw an aerial
view of her neighborhood. Since we lived on a golf course she had no
difficulty with the several ponds but the trees and rabbits were drawn
in side view.

And Alexander, how do you differentiate between a chariot and a wagon?

Thanks,
Gerry