Quick question for the Historians in the Room

[Raumung]

Mulceber, can you ask your friend to tell you where exactly did he took the picture...town, village, county?It could be medieval latin, some sort of advertising for a church, they did that quite often, and those mangled letters may contain the word IGLES...which can be a mention to a church.Mind you...i almost did pass my medieval latin course, and epigraphy isn't quite my strong point.i'll keep at it, but i can't make any promises :).

[Tabuu]

You know, that could be right. The church was a big influence back then. It could very well be an advertisment to get more christian followers. If I were to guess on that message, however, I think it would go, "Join the church and you will be givin everything your heart desires." But that's just me.

[Mulceber]

Hi guys, I just checked, and it was taken in Cordoba, Spain. Yeah, I'm inclined to think that the image was probably carved in later as a sign of devotion - perhaps even to purify the "evil" pagan shrine. Although that could be my imagination running away with me. -M

[Ludens]

If you wish, I could move it to the Monastery to see what other .Org patrons think.

[Mulceber]

That'd be great, thanks Ludens. -M

[Ludens]

Moved and bumped.

[Fragony]

Don't know the symbol but it looks like normal grafity. In excavations in Pompei they found loads of it, often hilarious 'he/she sucks for this and that'. Probably indeed the chalice, symbol looks to be more recent then the text below it. Looks like something else was there, look closely behind symbole something used to be written there, looks like a religious paintjob to me