02-03-2006, 09:34 AM
Hi Arthes, Comerus and all others,
yesterday - just after my last comment - I received a message by my public library, that the following book had arrived for me from another public library:
Paolo Moreno: "Apelles - The Alexander mosaic"
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The problem is, that I cannot take it with me back home, as it is only allowed to be studied inside the public library; so I could only overfly it during my midday break. But I found out the following theses of the author:
1. the depicted battle was not at Issos but the final one at Gaugamela
(in short) Moreno refers to landscape that fits better to Gaugamela than Issos. And – Arthes, watch out – he especially mentions the ‘Dead tree’. After his words was the theater of the battle at Gaugamela yet more than 1000 years later well-known by the native inhabitants of that area and the Venetian traveler Marco Polo would have been shown an old dead tree there that was called to be at the place of the battle. This dead old tree would have been the only one in that area … Remember, Marco Polo started his first expedition in 1271 and the mosaic with the depiction of the tree at Pompeii was yet uncovered for several hundred years, the inhabitants of that area could not know yet about the tree in the mosaic, but they told Marco Polo that ‘their’ old tree was from the great Alexander battle.
Regrettably Moreno has no modern photos of the landscape of Gaugamela and in the short time I could not find any reference whether this tree yet exists, but I think that would be very improbably;
2. Moreno refers to the standard that is – rather damaged – shown on the mosaic. Bernard Andreae (“Das Alexander mosaicâ€ÂÂ
yesterday - just after my last comment - I received a message by my public library, that the following book had arrived for me from another public library:
Paolo Moreno: "Apelles - The Alexander mosaic"
[url:pxcl2kno]http://www.textbookx.com/product_detail.php?detail_isbn=8881188643[/url]
The problem is, that I cannot take it with me back home, as it is only allowed to be studied inside the public library; so I could only overfly it during my midday break. But I found out the following theses of the author:
1. the depicted battle was not at Issos but the final one at Gaugamela
(in short) Moreno refers to landscape that fits better to Gaugamela than Issos. And – Arthes, watch out – he especially mentions the ‘Dead tree’. After his words was the theater of the battle at Gaugamela yet more than 1000 years later well-known by the native inhabitants of that area and the Venetian traveler Marco Polo would have been shown an old dead tree there that was called to be at the place of the battle. This dead old tree would have been the only one in that area … Remember, Marco Polo started his first expedition in 1271 and the mosaic with the depiction of the tree at Pompeii was yet uncovered for several hundred years, the inhabitants of that area could not know yet about the tree in the mosaic, but they told Marco Polo that ‘their’ old tree was from the great Alexander battle.
Regrettably Moreno has no modern photos of the landscape of Gaugamela and in the short time I could not find any reference whether this tree yet exists, but I think that would be very improbably;
2. Moreno refers to the standard that is – rather damaged – shown on the mosaic. Bernard Andreae (“Das Alexander mosaicâ€ÂÂ
Greets - Uwe
