THE TAMAM SHUD PIECE
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| YOU WILL NEED TO LET YOUR EYES FOCUS CAREFULLY ON THE TWO IMAGES. THE EXAMPLES OF MICROCODE ARE VERY SMALL |
THE CHANGE IN BACKGROUND COLOUR RELATES TO THE USE OF INFRARED LIGHTING
The torn piece has long been overlooked as a potential source of additional information. After all, what could you possibly expect to find apart from the letters that form the two words?
What you can just about see are, once again strings of letters and against a none to clear background. They appear to be done using a sharp pencil but I wouldn't rule out special inks and perhaps a pin, the characters are around .3mm in height in places. Very doable but unexpected.
Another interesting aspect is the 'halo' effect around the two letters T and A, in fact, that extends to the rest of the letters in TAMAM SHUD.
I have started to look at another example of the book and the same words, at present they don't look anything like the content of these two but I need to spend more time to confirm that. There is no apparent 'halo' effect on the other example that I have found to date.
(Followers may recall that the Pavel Fedosimov photograph had a similar halo effect that, in his case, related to the possible markings left by an oxygen mask. Pavel was supposedly photographed at La Guardia airfield in 1947, in those days, passengers on national flights were issued with oxygen masks in the event of encountering the need to fly above the normal ceiling heights. Pressurised cabins in aircraft were uncommon at that time but quickly became popular in the later 40s period and that may be the cause of shadowing on the image. It's is also correct to say that lighting and camera angles regularly cause facial changes in photographs, particularly including the shape of a person's nose. That same halo impression/shadowing either left by the mask or camera and lighting angles on Pavel, led one enthusiastic commenter to proclaim that Pavel must have had a 'saddle' nose. Not so. Here's a link to the page that discusses the issue...)
Why is it that no one has ever taken this close a look at the torn piece? Adelaide University boasts significant resources that could have uncovered this many years ago, but, seemingly, they were unaware of the contents of the piece. Realistically, that was the same attitude they had to the Boxall book and the code page itself. Personally, and as I have expressed before, I am astonished that they have investigated these items. Or have they?
What you can just about see are, once again strings of letters and against a none to clear background. They appear to be done using a sharp pencil but I wouldn't rule out special inks and perhaps a pin, the characters are around .3mm in height in places. Very doable but unexpected.
Another interesting aspect is the 'halo' effect around the two letters T and A, in fact, that extends to the rest of the letters in TAMAM SHUD.
I have started to look at another example of the book and the same words, at present they don't look anything like the content of these two but I need to spend more time to confirm that. There is no apparent 'halo' effect on the other example that I have found to date.
(Followers may recall that the Pavel Fedosimov photograph had a similar halo effect that, in his case, related to the possible markings left by an oxygen mask. Pavel was supposedly photographed at La Guardia airfield in 1947, in those days, passengers on national flights were issued with oxygen masks in the event of encountering the need to fly above the normal ceiling heights. Pressurised cabins in aircraft were uncommon at that time but quickly became popular in the later 40s period and that may be the cause of shadowing on the image. It's is also correct to say that lighting and camera angles regularly cause facial changes in photographs, particularly including the shape of a person's nose. That same halo impression/shadowing either left by the mask or camera and lighting angles on Pavel, led one enthusiastic commenter to proclaim that Pavel must have had a 'saddle' nose. Not so. Here's a link to the page that discusses the issue...)
Why is it that no one has ever taken this close a look at the torn piece? Adelaide University boasts significant resources that could have uncovered this many years ago, but, seemingly, they were unaware of the contents of the piece. Realistically, that was the same attitude they had to the Boxall book and the code page itself. Personally, and as I have expressed before, I am astonished that they have investigated these items. Or have they?