Antikythera Mechanism

[Jona Lendering]

Here's a recent article on the Antikythera Mechanism, published on the website of the BBC, which under normal circumstances means that it is a good piece. However, it makes a strange statement: that it was meant to indicate (a/o) when the Olympic Games were to be held. The author admits that this seems strange, but that the word "olympiad" was truly on one of the elements.

However, the Greeks of the hellenistic age measured time in olympiads, and I would not be surprised if the olympiads mentioned had something to do with the "input": "I want to know where the sun and moon will be in the second year of the Xth Olympiad".

Anyone any ideas?

[S SEVERUS]

In an article today in my newspaper is also stated that it must have been used in Corinth or in some of it's colonies.