Nimrud Northwest Palace Speaks (Object 31.72.3 at Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC)

The image below is most easily available at the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection object 31.72.3 in New York. The specific image here is from the internet public domain and imported into Autosketch (Autodesk) and lines carefully drawn between important details such as three-point circles, three-point curves, line systems, angles, purse taper, fingernail circles, finger ends, flower centers and others.

The reader may need to think about why archeologists and others do not provide detail measurements of important features of an image like this. Perhaps they figure the units of measure in modern times wouldn’t be close to what the ancients might use. Sounds reasonable, doesn’t it. But if the original artist was smart enough to create these images, surely one would know that the unit of measure needs to be eliminated from any message one might intend to present far into the future viewers.

How might one do that? The most obvious way is to base your message in dimensionless ratios, i.e. divide one measure by another. Another method would be to develop graphs that present mathematical usage no matter what units are used. The latter is what develops from the left side of the image where a JUI Jasmine flowering vine is presented. The three-point circle and the ellipse axis ACAD inputs are drawn around the 10 flowers.  There are six in the upper group and four in the bottom. We are only interested in the centers so whether it is a circle or ellipse doesn’t matter.

The center to center lines are alternated between cyan dash and light green solid lines which can then be entered into an Excel Spreadsheet using their length and azimuth. The plot of the line lengths are clearly some mathematical equation and not random lengths like one would expect from a simple artistic rendition. The image below from Excel shows the flower to flower centers starting from top and alternating in color similar to Nimrud image above. By using the Nimrud array both on a vertical axis and also on a horizontal axis (top row) one gets all possible dimensionless ratios of the ten lengths, in this case 100 ratios.

In the 100 ratios, only ten are needed to develop ten mathematical equations in order to solve the values precisely in a mathematical model, if it exists. For example, at column G and row36 the ratio1.2366205 is quite close to 2/phi = 1.23606. This and 9 other similar equations would provide a mathematical modeling opportunity to solve for all the precise design lengths for a more comprehensive blog. One can see that there are clearly at least two groups. The first six present themselves as a parabolic curve. The last four could be a combination of a slight curve of the first three combined with a straight line from No.6 to No. 10.

In the middle and far right graph one can see these curves are near an inverse of the first one but are also very similar to each other.  This is an indication of data consistency and therefore design intent and not random lengths. My wife was an artist and she certainly didn’t use any mathematics in her artistic creations.

In cell L43 one can see the average of the sum of all 100 dimensionless cells in the blue rectangle is 1.008507. From my experience in the analysis of dozens of huge sites like the Great Pyramid, Teotihuacan and Newgrange, I know this number taken to the reciprocal and then the square root yields a 3.1556xxx number that could come from the 1900 AD standard number of seconds for the earth to go around the sun.(31,556,926) This is  how the “second of time” is defined and is very important to our scientific world.

In cell L44, one can see how the same number develops the hydrogen hyperfine frequency, a primary number used by astronomers to scan the stars and galaxies. This type of analysis is too complex for this blog and will be expanded in another blog.

Of course, one cannot construct the flowering vine without some additional information besides just the lengths. The most readily available in ACAD is the azimuths of the center to center lines. Those were entered in column C in the image below. The sum leads to the same number that the line lengths did above, namely the standard number of seconds for the earth to go around the sun in the year 1900 AD, or 31,556,925.9747. The reciprocal of this number squared and then times 10 and then the square root gives the 1008.xxxx in the first spreadsheet image above which yielded 3.155588 and below is 3.1557703 which averages 3.15567915 or quite close to the real number 3.1556926. This is by far more precise than one should expect from this type of model. In the reverse calculation of the sum of the azimuths one can see there is only a discrepancy of a fraction of a degree in 10 measurements which is far beyond the repeatable capability of ACAD and the image. But close enough to capture our curiosity.

In column B, angles are measured from the vertical axis 270 degrees in ACAD. The sum of these angles was very close to 180/pi so the vertical axis was modified very slightly to 269.99736 to show it could be exact. The original tablet or photo could easily be off that much or more. The azimuths cannot be repeatedly measured this precisely but a mathematical model can be developed that provides infinite precision. The chart doesn’t care about individual measurements, only the relative mathematical ratios to develop a recognizable set of curves that can easily be related to common equation plots like a parabola.

Clearly the plot on the right shows all the azimuths are mathematically linked to two others in the straight lines in the graph above.

The next image is a geometric wonder. A three-point circle is drawn using the eye and two wrist watch-like devices and that the circle then passes exactly through the top left flower center which was used as the starting point in the spreadsheets above. This complicated relationship had to be intentional.

However, much more convincing are the radii drawn from the center of the cyan dashed large circle out to the four points defining the circle. The one up to the top left flower also passes through the center of the flower below it in red.  The line from center to the eye can be extended back down left and it passes exactly through the center of the seventh flower down from the top. The lines from the center to the wrist watch-like devices can also be extended down left shown with dark cyan dashed lines and pass through the sixth and fifth flowers.

This creation is far from what an artist could create free hand and extremely complex to create it even in an ACAD environment. Having an image to copy is one thing. Recreating the mathematical model to draw a new one is entirely something else.

A hint at what the artist thinks about units of measure is provided in the carefully measured angles and discussed in the cyan text at the right. The product of the 112.xxxx angles is remarkably precise at 1.270000379 when each is divided by 100 to shift the decimal.  While the conversion of meters to British units was 0.30479xxx in my 1959 Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, a few decades ago it was committee decided to round it up to 0.3048. One should note the 1.27 doubled to 2.54 is the conversion from inches to centimeters and when multiplied by 12 inches per foot divided by 100, gives 0.3048 meters per foot. Can all that be accidents? What I have found in dozens of large structures around the world is that feet are the primary units of measure used in the model designs that were developed.

Update 4-9-2025

The ACAD images can easily become so cluttered with dimensions that it is difficult for the reader to pick out references. The next images are also the 4-point circle area but focuses on the radii angles initially. This step is the fundamental message of the entire image and perhaps of the entire Assyrian Empire.

One can see the top angle between the top flower and eye center is exactly 100/phi. This results from an initial angle very close and then super slight adjustments, far too minute to repeatedly measure, were made to force it to be 100/phi. Also, the total angle at 133.2765494 as measured was forced to 133.4868263 to see if a system would develop, underline in red. One can see the use of the division by phi surfaced again, underlined in blue.

In the double array of angles, one can see that the overall sum of 9 values leads to a number that can easily convert to the conversion of meters to feet, underlined in orange. Later it will be shown this nearly exact value shows up in the analysis of the angles of the feather-like adornments.

In the image below the reader can see these assumptions fit the image quite precisely even when viewed in fine lines. (here thicker for visibility) But there is one more convincing feature of design intent and that is the azimuth of the center to top wristwatch-like circle is 25.6695051°. This divided by 10 and then taken to the square root is 1.602170562 which is quite a precise fit to 1.602176634 x 10^^(-19) numerical sequence for the basic electrical charge unit for our universe. The second image below shows a magenta dashed line under the feet like a foundation for the tablet. This shows that a slight rotation of the image would make the basic charge number exact.

Below is an image of the baseline under the feet drawn magenta dashed exactly at 180.000000 azimuth and one can see it matches quite precisely. This means all the azimuths are accurate for six digits and that should be convincing to most readers.

Detail high resolution of the circle centers follow starting with the eye, wristwatches and flower.

Eye detail

Top right wristwatch

Bottom right wristwatch circle

Top left flower

Consider now what the options of the artist could have been. The slab of soft clay had to be determined precisely.  One does not want to get the image 80% complete and find some of the remaining doesn’t fit. The center of the red dashed circle needs to be located.

In the ACAD effort, 4 points define 4 different circles all with very slightly different centers when first drawn. After as much magnification ACAD allows, those four centers can create four centers which can be averaged and a new center located which then becomes the center for the final circle drawn in dashed red.

Then since the flower has more pedals to draw multiple ellipses, those averaged were used to get the first try at a radius for the red dashed circle. As it turned out, that was good enough for the angles to fit precisely enough. It looks like that was the artist plan as the eye is pretty fuzzy with multiple options for drawing a circle.

The centers for the eye and two wristwatch-like circles are located at the intersection of the red dashed circle and the red dashed radii from the center.

The artist probably didn’t have modern day computers….but….more than likely did have savants available and probably knew how to use them.  Modern day savants are keen to calculate what day of the week any ancient date desired.  Nobody, including the savant, really knows how they do it, but one thing seems certain.  They didn’t do it the way modern math professors think they could have.

It seems likely that this artist made more than one of these images and essentially knew a lot of the measurements ahead of time. The images might not have used the exact same plan, thereby allowing modern folks to use different deciphering disciplines.

What About 100/phi?

While it looks very telltale why the artist would use an angle of 100/phi to catch our attention, there are a lot of pseudo-experts that think finding the square root and manipulation of decimal fractions was invented by the Egyptians even though there is some evidence the Sumerians might have used it first in the artifacts found to date.

One cannot define phi without knowing the square root of 5. [phi=(5^^(1/2)+1) / 2 ]  The reader is most fortunate to be reading something authored by somebody who used slide rules, logarithms and long hand “finding a square root” of any number quite precisely, though very slow and prone to mistakes. I have included those gory details in an appendix with this update and a You Tube video explaining the details.

The reader should not take this relatively easy resolution of the image as something anybody can do. Over the decades I was hired to manage professional engineering departments because I had already implemented ACAD introduction into previous departments in the 1985-1992 era and trained the new people on the use of ACAD and buying the then very expensive work stations.

Since the exact upward vector divides the 100/phi angle, it seemed there might be an opportunity for the artist to prove 100/phi was part of the design intent.

Marked in dashed green, the straight up line at 90.00000-degree azimuth divides the 100/phi angle on the left side =24.4677375 and the right side at 37.3356614. The product of the conjugate ratio and division dimensionless number is 7.328817592 and the natural log of this number times 5 and then taken to the square root is 3.155799575 which is the sidereal orbital period for earth around the sun at 365.25636 x 86400 seconds = 31,558,149.5. This fitting is about the same precision as the basic electrical charge number mentioned above and appears to be intentional.

The next angle is the overall sum of 133.48xxx from the flower clockwise to the bottom right wristwatch. This angle is shown in Line 33 in the spreadsheet above. The third angle is shown in Line 30 and uses essentially the same procedure except for an exponent. The common procedure makes it very unlikely to be an accident. The introduction of 1.71875 is very important. Below is a partial list of how this number contributes to our understanding of the universe.

1.   The Egyptian Royal Cubit is 1.71875 feet or 20.625 inches.

2.   All modern music uses 440 cycles per second as tuning basis and 440 / 2^⁽⁸⁾ is 1.71875 where 2 to the eighth power is 8 octaves below 440 cps. It is not audible by normal means, but times 60 is a very popular dancing rhythm.

3.   The earth to sun distance as precise as it can be measured is the formula using this number (20.625 / 1440)^^(1/2) * 50 / 4 * 1E8 = 149,597,985.7 km.

4.   The fundamental basis for quantum mechanics analysis of the most abundant hydrogen series (Lyman) is exactly the same number as used in No.3. (covered in detail on the blog www.great-pyramid-speaks.blogspot.com ) and the appendix herein.

5.   The 1.71875^⁽⁵⁾ /10 = 1.49990432 is the breakpoint between inner solid planets and outer gaseous planets as shown in the image below.

Using the 2000 epoch astronomical data, the ratio of the natural logarithm of the planet orbital time divided by the natural logarithm of the planet distance yields the chart below.

Birds of a Feather, flock together?

The feather-like appendages are obviously not designed for aerodynamic use. Yet the use of these arrangements obviously did convince modern mankind that they were some type of wing, so they accomplished their purpose. If the message is “wing for flying” but not “like birds”, what could it mean?

In the image above showing the vertical green dashed line dividing the 100/Phi angle, note that this line passes through two significant feather tips defining the beginning and ending of the feathers on the head dress. (marked with a green cross) This seems to indicate one should look at the feather design.

Feather Analysis

The image below shows two areas where lines were drawn along what seemed like consistent grabbing indentations. Most of the angles are not shown because the image becomes entirely too cluttered. In the top green section, the middle feather angle is 2.6907721 and, in the bottom red section, the angle shown is 4.3314975. In the Excel image second below, the angles are all shown along with the graph. Fortunately, the feathers are long and straight  enough to get a good read on the azimuth.

The graph of the angles below is a standard W-curve common to certain types of statistical analysis and is easily plotted with precision for analysis of points between the 10 steps. Note the sum of all 10 angles, inside red rectangles, easily converts to the neutron/electron mass ratio of 1838.683364 from 1000 / (ln (1.3125^⁽²⁾ )) .

One should note that the square root of 2.6907721 then doubled = 3.28071 which compares well with 1 / 0.3048 = 3.28084 for the conversion of metric to British linear measurements. This invites us to look for other meaningful relationships of the ten angles to see if there are enough equations to build a precise model. That work is in progress but is far too complex for the regular reader.

The spreadsheet below is from the red feathers at the bottom portion of the Nimrud image in ACAD. The reader might sympathize with my disappointment at not seeing a nice statistical curve like the green feathers above. But due to very good habits, I just started drawing straight lines connecting those that were closely aligned.

To my amazement, the three colored lines all connect with four angles and none connected with angle 10 (C169). The sums of the angles for each colored line are given in Column D. In row 177 and 178 two very similar procedures are used to get quite precise use of 1.71875xxx.  The average of the two numbers in D180 is what led to the finding of the basic relationship of two scientific terms in F176 and F177. The first is the basic electrical charge number and the second the Gaussian Gravitation Constant. Note in F179 the number developed is very close to the average of the numbers in D180. The number in F178 is very close to the Venus orbital relationship discussed earlier of 1.499933 compared to 1.499934. Perhaps this is suggesting the planetary orbits are like electron shells and not randomly collected fragments.

Now, let’s go back to the beginning of the issue of feathers. Probably all readers agree that the feathers are not representative of bird feathers nor of aerodynamic features attributed to bird feathers.  Yet, most everyone agrees that these do represent something akin to wings, or perhaps flying. With the analysis above, one could easily conclude that the message has something to do with basic electrical charge and gravitation. Could this mean that these wings use electric charge to provide lift against the forces of gravitation? We know that in thunderstorms, huge ice balls get lifted high into huge clouds and then fall.  It is thought that fierce winds cause them to be lifted and when the wind runs out of gas, so to speak, the balls fall. But what if the electric charge on the ball is buoyed upward in the huge electric field in the sky and perhaps provides much of the lift? When lightning strikes, this force might be reduced and the ice balls fall.

Most everybody has experienced walking across certain carpets and then when they touch the metal doorknob, a spark jumps between the hand and doorknob. We think we know how that system works. What if a human with certain experience could use something like sound to charge these feather-like appendages enough to provide lift and forward & backward propulsion? That doesn’t sound so farfetched to this engineer.

We do know that sound can do some strange things in sonoluminescence and cavitation, far beyond our current complete understanding. It would seem that further study of this Nimrud image would be a good idea.

The reader has been purposefully kept out of the technical weeds in this initial exposure of the design intent of the Nimrud tablet. The reader didn’t need any familiarity with scientific or engineering terms and any complex mathematical procedures or transforms. It is not likely most readers will have even heard of Fourier and Laplace transforms initially taught in the highest math course most engineers receive in their pursuit of their initial BS degrees.

However, that’s what will follow in a more comprehensive blog meant for the reader steeped in advanced complex geometry and mathematical transforms. This blog is attempting to awake common folks up to “some of the ancients were at least gifted”.

One might want to ask if a savant could do all this? Since the savants don’t know how they do things of great complexity, I guess we wait to see what unfolds in the next decade.

Thanks for reading

Jim Branson, Retired Professional Engineering Manager, bransonjim9 at gmail dot com

Appendix Finding Square Root by Hand

 

The image below is fairly self-explanatory and the referenced video is a good source for younger readers. It is possible that folks with savant-like abilities could have developed this methodology and perhaps the archeologist assistants doing the excavation glossed over some important observations. While savants did some really important calculations, they were not really respected because they couldn’t do very simple practical matters such as preparing their own meals.

Appendix: The Newgrange Procedure

The basic observation was as follows:

          (a x 1.2 = 2.06)  (2.06^^(1/4) = 1.19) (1.19 x 50/4 = 14.9xxx)  (14.9xxx^^(1/5) = a like number again)

When starting with a number larger than 1.71828760699, routine re-substitution comes down to that number and stops.  When starting with a number smaller, re-substitution comes up to the number and stops. This is like a hyperbolic curve, only a very special one.

When this formula is put into Microsoft Mathematics or Mathcad, the symbolic solution is the same…..1.71828760699xxxxx with infinite precision. 

see also

www.great-pyramid-speaks.blogspot.com