“The merchants from Ancient Rome too loved wearing such rings and one of them must have come to Musiri, “says the article in Sasanam.īesides carrying several stories on archaeological interest, the magazine places an accent on the recent discovery of a rare stone inscription at Kinnimangalam near Chekanurani in the Madurai district. With his love for Greek mythology, Augustus wore the ring with the intaglio of the sphinx and had the same image as his official imperial seal. The writer informs that the first Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar declared himself the son of the Greco-Roman god Apollo. The article in Sasanam traces the possibilities of how the gemstone, incised with the image of the sphinx came to Pattanam. Muddied, the fine ships of the Yavanas come with gold Huge, beautiful Sulli river’s white foam to become ….prosperous Musiri town of Cheran, where, causing the The song in Agananuru, as read from Vaidehi Herbert’s English translation, informs that the yavanas bought pepper from the ancient Tamils by paying them in gold! Substantiating the point, the writer cites the lines from the 149th song of Agananuru, a Sangam period work, which describes the arrival of the ships of the yavanas (A generic term for people coming from the west: Romila Thapar) loaded with gold at Musiri and returned with pepper. Musiri, which is said to have been engulfed by the sea, could be the town Pattanam in the present-day Ernakulam district, with many archaeological discoveries throwing light on the trade ties between Rome and the ancient Tamil land” writes Senaani in the article titled “Rome Pattanathu Mothirakkal” in Sasanam. “Musiri, an ancient harbour, which is mentioned in various pieces of classical Tamil literature, was once a busy trade centre between Rome and the ancient Tamil Nadu. The gem with the intaglio of the sphinx bears testimony to the maritime trade relations between the ancient Tamil land and Rome. As read from an article carried in Sasanam, a bilingual magazine edited by writer Sukavana Murugan, the KCHR (Kerala Council for Historical Research), at Pattanam in Ernakulam district, stumbled upon a seal-ring with the carving of the sphinx. It is surprising to know that the sphinx was found in the ancient Tamil land too but as an image. Because as a child, man crawls using the hands too as legs, later walks upright with two legs and finally leans on a stick in old age! The answer given by king Oedipus was ‘man’. When the wise king gave the correct answer, the creature accepted its defeat and killed itself.
"What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three in the evening?” On an occasion, the creature posed a question to Oedipus, the king of Thebes, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother in Greek mythology. It devoured a man each time whenever the riddle was answered incorrectly. The sphinx, a mythological creature with a lion’s body and a human head, an important image in Egyptian and Greek art and legend, is known for its riddles.
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