![]() ![]() It also appears on a 1st century BC dolmen tomb in Rathkenny, County Meath. It is carved into the rock of a stone lozenge near the main entrance of the prehistoric Newgrange monument in County Meath, Ireland. The Neolithic era symbol of three conjoined spirals may have had triple significance similar to the imagery that lies behind the triskelion. The triple spiral symbol, or three spiral volute, appears in many early cultures, the first in Malta (4400–3600 BCE) and in the astronomical calendar at the famous megalithic tomb of Newgrange in Ireland built around 3200 BCE, as well as on Mycenaean vessels. Use in European antiquity Neolithic to Iron Age 5,000 year-old triskelion on an orthostat at Newgrange The form consisting of three human legs (as opposed to the triple spiral) has also been called a " triquetra of legs", also triskelos or triskel. The form triskelion (as it were Greek τρισκέλιον ) is a diminutive which entered English usage in numismatics in the late 19th century. While the Greek adjective τρισκελής 'three-legged (e.g., of a table)' is ancient, use of the term for the symbol is modern, introduced in 1835 by Honoré Théodoric d'Albert de Luynes as French triskèle, and adopted in the spelling triskeles following Otto Olshausen (1886). Greek τρισκελής ( triskelḗs) means 'three-legged'. It later appears in heraldry, and, other than in the flag of Sicily, came to be used in the flag of the Isle of Man (known as ny tree cassyn 'the three legs'). In the Hellenistic period, the symbol becomes associated with the island of Sicily, appearing on coins minted under Dionysius I of Syracuse beginning in c. The actual triskeles symbol of three human legs is found especially in Greek antiquity, beginning in archaic pottery and continued in coinage of the classical period. It is found in artifacts of the European Neolithic and Bronze Age with continuation into the Iron Age especially in the context of the La Tène culture and related Celtic traditions. The spiral design can be based on interlocking Archimedean spirals, or represent three bent human legs. Neolithic triple spiral symbolĪ triskelion or triskeles is an ancient motif consisting of a triple spiral exhibiting rotational symmetry or other patterns in triplicate that emanate from a common center. For other uses, see Triskelion (disambiguation). This article is about shapes with three-fold rotational symmetry. ![]()
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