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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] |
