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01-30-2010, 08:53 PM | #1 |
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Baghdad Battery
The Baghdad Battery, sometimes referred to as the Parthian Battery, is the common name for a number of artifacts created in Mesopotamia, possibly during the Parthian or Sassanid period (the early centuries AD). These jars were probably discovered in 1936 in the village of Khuyut Rabbou'a, near Baghdad, Iraq. These artifacts came to wider attention in 1938 when Wilhelm König, the German director of the National Museum of Iraq, found the objects in the museum's collections. In 1940, König published a paper speculating that they may have been galvanic cells, perhaps used for electroplating gold onto silver objects.
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01-30-2010, 09:00 PM | #2 |
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Re: Baghdad Battery
I wonder if they used those to power the Egyptian light bulbs. |
01-30-2010, 09:37 PM | #3 |
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Re: Baghdad Battery
Most certainly they did. Thank you for sharing this photo with everyone.
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02-16-2010, 03:41 AM | #4 |
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Re: Baghdad Battery
What's that hybrid human/animal critter on the right side? It's got a tail (or a long wig on) and is holding two knives?
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02-16-2010, 04:00 AM | #5 |
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