Kofels Downloads
(All download material is public domain)
Artwork
Three artists have working to the same brief to speculate on the Sumerian astronomers observing the asteroid
The brief given to the artists
Amanda Pollard
Low - jpeg 700KB
Med - jpeg 4.61mb
Ellie McQueen
Low - jpeg 600kb
Med - jpeg 4.34mb
Mark Hempsell
Low - jpeg 800kb
Med - jpeg 4.12mb
The Impact (Mark Hempsell) - Low - jpeg 72kb
This shows the asteroid clipping the mountain Gamskogel as seen from Kofels. The smaller object on the right is a fragment that caused a 250 m crater on a mountain called Gamskogel. The small dot above the asteroid is the Moon in the correct position and at the correct size.
Tablet 8538 - jpeg 160kb
Kofels Today jpeg 885kb
Portrait: Mark Hempsell - jpeg 560kb
Portrait: Alan Bond - jpeg 1.3kb
Documents
- Night Sky Survey (190KB PDF)
This document reports the search for the night sky. For each of the years between 3500BC and 2000 BC for the lunar date indicated on the tablet the planetary position are established and compare with the planets as shown on the Tablet.
Note: some of the documents on this page are in PDF format. In order to view a PDF you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader