1 20 26 https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/355/boar.png 2f12027011817d0dded82e3596bc289d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Boar Description An account of the resource The boar is an emblem of fertility, fearlessness, and strength, but also stubbornness, war, and chaos. As the meat of the boar is prized, it is also a symbol of hospitality. Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/401/Broken_Sword_or_Tuning_Fork.jpg 49a4c9b3f1786b635d44bc52ce32d8de Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Broken Sword or Tuning Fork Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/356/bull.png 69308fbe13891e87964afd1ff61c1484 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bull Description An account of the resource The bull was, and still is, a symbol of fertility, wealth, and status. The bull likewise symbolizes ties to the land, ancestry, and kinship. A good bull was a sign of wealth in a culture that revolved around farming, the prestige of a clan’s bull was closely linked to that of its king, and to the prosperity of its people. Although Pictish symbols usually appear in pairs, a few have only been found on their own. These include the Bull and the Bear. Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/354/crescent_v-rod.png 9c68d979bf0dea6156ce1c5c654867d6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Crescent V-rod Subject The topic of the resource The crescent and the V-rod symbols appear frequently on Pictish stones. Description An account of the resource The Crescent and the Crescent with a V-rod through it, appear often on the Pictish Stones. The crescent is thought to symbolise the moon/sun and also thought to symbolise death. The V-rod is thought to be a bent or broken arrow. Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/399/DDZROD.jpg 762509acbcc3ee3abd58be4434268b17 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Double Disc Z-Rod Description An account of the resource The double disc is a Pictish symbol of unknown meaning, that is frequently found on Class I and Class II Pictish stones, as well as on Pictish metalwork. The symbol can be found with and without an overlaid Z-rod (also of unknown meaning), and in combinations of both. Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/359/eagle.png 146e56cbc033d1be3488bcbd053e8957 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eagle Description An account of the resource A good example of the Eagle Symbol can be seen on The Clach an Tiompain (Sounding Stone) or Eagle Stone, a small Class I Pictish stone, located on a hill on the northern outskirts of Strathpeffer in Easter Ross, Scotland. Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/405/Easterton_of_Roseisle.jpg 8d13e027b6f11847b2b2d5fb8ca121ae Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Easterton of Roseisle Stone Subject The topic of the resource An rare example of the Goose symbol can be seen on the Easterton Of Roseisle, Class I Pictish Symbol Stone from Moray, now housed in National Museum Scotland, Edinburgh. Discovered in 1894 - a farmer ploughing his fields at Easterton farm, unearthed the top of a burial cist. The pictish stone formed the West side of the irregularly shaped cist. It seems the stone had been re-used, as both sides, including the outermost side, exposed to the soil, are inscribed with pictish designs. Outer aspect of stone, A large Crescent with notch (A bridge, or 'rainbow-arch' to some), above a crescent and v-rod, and mirror and comb. Reverse side - A goose, with neck arched back over body, above a salmon. The goose is a rare form of a pictish design, likely 5-6th Century in its construction. Nearby can be found the Sculptor's Cave and Burghead's Pictish Fort. Numerous Cists and burial cairns are found locally, at Inverugie and the hill of Tappoch. Pictish Stone Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/384/pictish-fish.jpg 0aa0d9e0059d84b5c36c2d69b4f41c21 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fish Description An account of the resource The fish symbol is also known as the Salmon, it may be symbolic of wisdom and prophecy. Salmon figure prominently in Celtic mythological tales, they often inhabited the sacred wells, feeding on the fruits (often, hazelnuts) of the tree of life. Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/357/goose.png 903768ca06d2cf317875a84916086560 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Goose Description An account of the resource A rare example of the Goose symbol can be seen on the Easterton Of Roseisle, Class I Pictish Symbol Stone from Moray, now housed in National Museum Scotland, Edinburgh. The stone slab features a goose, with neck arched back over body, above a salmon. Subject The topic of the resource A rare example of the Goose symbol can be seen on the Easterton Of Roseisle, Class I Pictish Symbol Stone from Moray, now housed in National Museum Scotland, Edinburgh. Discovered in 1894 - a farmer ploughing his fields at Easterton farm, unearthed the top of a burial cist. The pictish stone formed the West side of the irregularly shaped cist. It seems the stone had been re-used, as both sides, including the outermost side, exposed to the soil, are inscribed with pictish designs. Outer aspect of stone, A large Crescent with notch (A bridge, or 'rainbow-arch' to some), above a crescent and v-rod, and mirror and comb. Reverse side - A goose, with neck arched back over body, above a salmon. The goose is a rare form of a pictish design, likely 5-6th Century in its construction. Nearby can be found the Sculptor's Cave and Burghead's Pictish Fort. Numerous Cists and burial cairns are found locally, at Inverugie and the hill of Tappoch. Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/360/horse.png d44796a33bfbfbf369854987c747dc22 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Horse Description An account of the resource The horse was a tremendously important animal to the Celtic tribes, and its domestication transformed the Celtic culture Horses were used for meat and milk and provided labor for farming and transportation, making for huge advances in hunting and war-making. The horse was so important to the Celts it was associated with the sun god, who often appeared as a horse with a human face. Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/397/kells2.jpg 7fdb34fe8501aacc7cbead506e0087cb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Human Figures Subject The topic of the resource Human Figures Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vector image created from George Bain book, Celtic Art. Description An account of the resource The representations of human figures by Celtic Artists were influenced by the Pagan Laws that forbade the copying of the works of the Almighty Creator. In Celtic Zoomorphic ornaments the physical appearance of man was not copied. His legs, arms, body, topknot, hair and beard interlaced with each other. Portraiture of a living person, in his created form was a heinous crime. The portrayal of the Saints of the sacred Gospels in the Book of Kells and Lindisfarne was that of a persons who had long departed from earthly habitation and of the angels who were migrants of the Heavenly Host. - George Bain, Celtic Art, The Methods of Construction. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Book of Kells George Bain Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/394/knotwork_-GB-from-book.png 8d27ffce27c20554b31cad58814247ee Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Interlace Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vector image created from George Bain book, Celtic Art. Description An account of the resource According to artist George Bain, Religion and Pagan laws had the greatest influence on the art form of Celtic knots, playing an important role in there design. The interlacing of human form and Celtic knots evolved from laws forbidding drawing portraits of human figures as this was tantamount to copying a work of the creator, “God the Almighty,” explains Bain in his book Celtic Art. Similarly, it was forbidden to draw animals or plants. Angels and mythic creatures, on the other hand, were not of the earthly realm. And Saints had departed this realm. Thus, Celtic knot patterns were used to represent most of the human form, while heads, appendages and tails were often depicted using more life-like representations. George Bain Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/362/key-pattern.png 0428fa56689d6eb7bf72b4cda78ff267 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Key Pattern Description An account of the resource Key Patterns (repeated vertical and horizontal lines). Know here as the Key Pattern, or a meander or meandros (Greek: Μαίανδρος) it is a decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif. Such a design is also called the Greek fret or Greek key design, although these are modern designations. On the one hand, the name "meander" recalls the twisting and turning path of the Maeander River in Asia Minor, and on the other hand, as Karl Kerenyi pointed out, "the meander is the figure of a labyrinth in linear form". Among some Italians, these patterns are known as Greek Lines. 'J. Romeilly Allen was of the opinion that the essential difference between the classical Key patterns and those used by the Christian Celts of Britain and Ireland, consisted in the introduction of diagonal lines by the latter.' - George Bain, Celtic Art, The Methods of Construction. Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/364/knotwork_vectorwithtran.png 0d7780b89b27823bfa13e0df0d8cc355 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Knot-work Subject The topic of the resource According to artist George Bain, Religion and Pagan laws had the greatest influence on the art form of Celtic knots, playing an important role in there design. The interlacing of human form and Celtic knots evolved from laws forbidding drawing portraits of human figures as this was tantamount to copying a work of the creator, “God the Almighty,” explains Bain in his book Celtic Art. Similarly, it was forbidden to draw animals or plants. Angels and mythic creatures, on the other hand, were not of the earthly realm. And Saints had departed this realm. Thus, Celtic knot patterns were used to represent most of the human form, while heads, appendages and tails were often depicted using more life-like representations. Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/398/mirror_and_comb.jpg 466fafa24b8b70f775ae53558c77b0ed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mirror and Comb Description An account of the resource Another object commonly inscribed on Pictish stones is the mirror, often paired with a comb. The comb and mirror are thought to be symbols of female wealth and prestige, and may denote a woman’s memorial, although they are also heavily associated with mermaids. Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/400/Rectangular_Motif_and_Z-rod.jpg 43888fcc5a0dc49d0ba6a2569d39846d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Motif and Z-rod Description An account of the resource This symbol is known as the rectangular Motif and Z-Rod, again, this Pictish symbol is of unknown meaning. Also sometimes a square shaped motif with Z-rod symbol is represented. It is thought that the rectangle in the centre of the lower half of these shapes, may represent a doorway. Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/403/Rectangle_with_Tripple_Disc.jpg 37a3caa430bbd619912a47d85aa1be65 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Motif with Triple Disc Description An account of the resource The triple disc is a Pictish symbol of unknown meaning, that is found on Class I and Class II Pictish stones. The symbol is found in various combinations with other symbols, notably with the crescent and v-rod. The symbol is constructed from a larger central circle flanked with two smaller circles on either side. It is sometimes shown with a "bar" bisecting all three circles. Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/396/plant_forms.jpg 88cff282a496ee6aaada969748aab4e6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Plant Forms Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vector image created from George Bain book, Celtic Art. Description An account of the resource The reference to the plant forms which rarely occur in the Book of Kells and not at all in the Book of Durrow and Lindisfarne, have been used to prove that the two latter books belong to an earlier period. It is the author’s opinion (George Bain), based upon many evidences, that the Book of Lindisfarne is later than the Book of Kells. Foliated ornaments entered Southern Britain with the Roman invasions, and forms of Gothic foliage came with the invaders after the fall of Rome, but they differ from those of the Pictish Stones of East Scotland and those of the Book of Kells. In the portions of that book that have been available to the author for research, namely the “studio” publication in colours, of some of its most important pages, and “Celtic Illuminative Art” in black and white, by Rev. Stanford F.H. Robinson, M.A., the examples, with one exception, emerge from pots or beakers. The extreme minuteness of these examples make it probable that the pots have not been noticed and no known mention of them has hitherto been made. Without any possible doubt, this is a pagan and, later, a Christian symbol and its use was a religious one and not merely decorative. - George Bain, Celtic Art, the Method of Construction. George Bain Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/402/Serpent_Z_Rod..jpg 3545885881555bddae97632834807af0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Serpent & Z-rod Description An account of the resource The serpent or snake, is thought to be a symbol of medicine/healing, although this is unknown. The Z-rod, like the V-rod, may represent a broken arrow or spear, but again this is a Pictish symbol of unknown meaning. Groam House Pictish Symbols https://openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/files/original/1/387/pictish-snake-symbol1.jpg 0e3155b5c898c4d8e6f02874a53570d7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Snake Description An account of the resource The serpent or snake, is thought to be a symbol of medicine and healing, although this is unknown. The snake symbol can also be found with a Z-rod through it. Pictish Symbols