A new conspiracy theory questions whether there’s a laptop carved into an ancient Greek funerary statue of a woman, dated to about 100 B.C., showing her looking at a handheld digital device which looks eerily like a laptop. The theory, proposed by the anonymous YouTube user StillSpeakingOut, says that the ancient Oracle of Delphi may have foreseen the invention of laptops, and told people about it.
“Greek tales about the Oracle of Delphi, which was supposed to allow the priests to quote-unquote connect with the gods and retrieve advanced information on various aspects,” made him wonder whether the statue represented a prediction, Still Speaking Out said.
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‘The object depicted on the statue does look something like a laptop, but, of course, it’s not’. Said Jeffrey Spier, the senior curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California, which owns the statue. ‘Instead, the object may be a jewelry box, a shallow chest or possibly a hinged mirror, as “we have hinged mirrors from this time period,”’Spier said.
The statue, officially called “Grave Naiskos of an Enthroned Woman with an Attendant,” depicts a well-dressed woman lounging on a cushioned armchair and reaching out to touch the lid of a shallow chest held by a servant girl.
Funerary reliefs were common in ancient Greece, and started occurring in the archaeological record in the sixth century B.C. and continued until about the first century B.C.
“We have a number of naiskos in the museum, showing young girls with their toys or with pets. They are very nostalgic and sympathetic.”, said Spier.
By: Archa Dave
