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(CLICK to Enlarge) Pictograph of the lesser Ancient Irish
harp, found at Site Wa-5, Spanish Springs, Nevada. The inscription and pictograph are both engraved on the same
rock, side by side. The letters C-R-T
C-H-L read in Gaelic,cruit chiuil
= "the lyre or lesser harp." This term for the
harp is more Scot than Irish
Gaelic. The unusually complete ogam
consain text is 18 in. long & the harp ca. one-foot across. The pictograph of a tortoise shell
(different scale) found at Site Cl-145, might have provided the sound box, as
in the case of Greek lyres (see Fell 1982). [Also see Petroglyph list] |
