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Pictish Symbol Stones: religious imagery, heraldic arms or a language?
Author(s) -
Lee Rob,
Jonathan Philip,
Ziman Pauline
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2010.00451.x
Subject(s) - symbol (formal) , surrender , meaning (existential) , art , history , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology
The Pictish Symbol Stones are a collection of finely carved stones dating from ca. 300 AD to 843 AD whose meaning has been lost in time. Despite attracting linguists and historians alike, as a collection they have been just too small to surrender their secrets. Now, however, Rob Lee, Philip Jonathan and Pauline Ziman have used a technique based on comparative entropy to unwrap some of the mystery of the stones.