▶ Your Answer : Some people say that the recently
discovered ancient Greek discs were used as a drum, cooking pan, and a mirror.
However, based on the deep investigation, this statement cannot be true. The
ceramic discs were not used as cooking pan. It is because to be used as a
cooking tool, the disc must have a sign that shows it was used for frying or
boiling foods. However, there was no signs that it was burned or cracked.
The
ceramic discs were not used as drum. To play the drum, the woods might be more efficient
than discs that were made of mud. this discs make the sound like drums but it is not strong enough to handle the continuous stroke.
The
ceramic discs were not used as mirror. We can find the reason of this from the
living style of ancient people and the decoration of plate. First of all, the Greeks
probably used water to reflect the light rather than copper. Secondly, the
decoration of mirror on the bottom can be useless if the copper was placed
bottom of discs because we cannot hold it vertically.
Nowadays,
many scientists brought the thought that ceramic discs might have been used as
drum, cooking pan and mirror but it was fault investigation because of the structure,
burned sign, and decorations of the ceramic disc. |