Talk:Egg-and-dart

Ankh?

 * Egg-and-dart is also the Egyptian symbol of eternal life which later evaluates into the tzar's sceptre.

Does this mean the ankh? Rojomoke (talk) 12:09, 19 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Ineditable babble: who knows?. I also deleted the Egyptian image which bears no egg-and-dart. --Wetman (talk) 10:13, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

In Popular Culture
Is this section really pertinent? Suggest removing this; possibly relocate to an article about the song if the song is deemed article-worthy. Also requires references ("It has been noted..." - where? "The allusion is apparently..." - according to...?). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.152.68.245 (talk) 00:55, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. I'll go ahead and remove the Pop Culture section since it's been years since your comment and no one has said anything to support its inclusion. It's always a drag when you look something up something real on wikipedia like 'CAT scan' and half the article ends up being a list of futurama episodes or whatever. --24.60.170.127 (talk) 20:23, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Ancient name
How did the Greeks and Romans refer to this ornament? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.156.126.230 (talk) 08:41, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Greek borrowing from older civilizations
egg and dart are certainly not greek motifs, for example they appear in BMAC statues

BMAC egg and dark motif from 3rd-2nd mil BC



since mauryan egg and dart appear to imitate the BMAC motif which also seem to exhibit a lot of BMAC, indus civilization motifs, and with an addition of one extra hanging element, i think the motif may have moved from east to west and redesigned by the greeks. 115.135.130.182 (talk) 19:17, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

In second photo the capital dates from 250BC. The egg and dart is used in Athens at least since the 5th century BC. Not to mention that I don't see the decoration in this photo. Onoufrios d (talk) 11:19, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

From Greece
"was used by ancient Roman builders, is found in ancient Greek architecture" ? Greek architecture precedes the Romans. Not to mention that there is no photo from Greece. This is typical on the Acropolis itself.... Onoufrios d (talk) 11:10, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Photo from Greece
I think it makes sense to have a photo actually from Greece... How do we do that? Onoufrios d (talk) 14:12, 14 September 2021 (UTC)