Detail from Leningrad Codex Carpet Page with David Shield painted and not drawn from micrographic writing.
Copied from L'ornament Hebreu, the edition which Vladimir Stassof & David Gunzburg issued in 1905
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Six Pointed Star on an Ancient City Wall
If a city is an organic entity, its walls are like the skin of a human being, and inscriptions on this wall are like tattoos. There are 4 Six-pointed star on the walls of Jerusalem, Israel, and one on the wal of Byblos, Lebanon. Here we see another one on the city wall of Diyarbakır, largest city in southeastern Turkey,
which was built before the Roman era, but it is not clear when was this star inscripted.
Courtesy of kurdistan کردستان from Flickr
Monday, June 22, 2009
Six Pointed Star Fortress
Karlovac, Croatia 1774
A whole town inside a fortress, which was built
in the shape of a six-pointed star
against the advancing Turks.
Karlovac is named after Austro-Hungarian tsar Carl
Picture was uploaded to Wikimedia by Neoneo13 (Thanks Neoneo13!)
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About 1680 Nové Zámky in Slovakia was built according to a similar plan
Picture uploaded to Wikipedia by Poganyp (thanks Poganyp!)
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