[meteorite-list] AD - Rare roman coin with meteorite theme on Ebay

From: Martin Altmann <Altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Sep 3 21:34:17 2005
Message-ID: <006101c5b0f2$35bbc700$6389fea9_at_9y6y40j>

Hi Darren,

indeed it's a shame.
Not to take a look at the stone of Paphos for a meteoricist, is like
Einstein would have stated: "Gravity? I never heard of that".
Chladni, Daubree, Brezina, Cohen, Nininger, Monnig et.al. would have
travelled immediately there, if they would have known, that the stone was
recovered....
The rest, I will write you offlist, for not risking my neck more than I have
already done.
Gosh, why I'm always so choleric.
Martin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse_at_charter.net>
To: "Martin Altmann" <Altmann_at_meteorite-martin.de>
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 3:22 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] AD - Rare roman coin with meteorite theme on
Ebay


On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 02:53:17 +0200, "Martin Altmann"
<Altmann_at_Meteorite-Martin.de> wrote:

>Yes, Darren, one stone survived.
>The holy stone of the temple of Paphos on Cyprus, which is depicted on many
>classical coins (Traian, Vespasian, Drusus, Caracalla and so on),
>was recovered by excavations on the temple site more than hundred years
>ago.
>It was kept in the cellar and the stock of the National museum in Nikosia
>for an eternity,
>until it was transportated to the local archeological museum in Kouklia,
>where it's now exhibited.
>
>Never a sample was taken for authentification.

One of the sad things about being a specialist in one feild of science means
that you tend to not
have much knowledge of/interest in other feilds. I often wonder how many
meteorites paleontologists
have walked over in the desert, and how many valuable fossils meteorite
hunters have walked over.
(Like, for example, Peter Douglas Ward's work in the Karoo desert as
described in his recent book
Gorgon-- seems like prime meteorite country, and he and his people likely
kicked a few meteorites
out of the way in their scouring the desert for bone).

I knew that a ancient fall in a temple in Japan was still known, but I
hadn't ever heard that one of
the ancient Greek ones had been recovered. (It reminds me of the book The
First Fossil Hunters
which attempts to trace many ancient legends and worshiped objects to
fossils-- see
http://www.2think.org/fossilhunters.shtml)
Received on Sat 03 Sep 2005 09:44:36 PM PDT