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Themes (with overlap):

Archaeology

arch.-based reconstr. 900 BCE woman	idem	Frisian fibula
remains of smashed wheel in Cologne museum, 2nd-3rd centtury	Indus valley find	bowl found in NL estimated as 7th century	wheel of reincarnation, India
amulet Indus Valley	slave's neck chain	Minoan 1400 BCE	Roman slaves
Thracian		3	4
1	2	3	4

19th century people, OLB reception

1872 cartoon	1877 cartoon	dr J.G. Ottema	Ottema
C. Over de Linden	Over de Linden	model by Over de Linden c.1840	Sandbach
1	2	3	4

Maps

500 BCE reconstr.	Nearchus-Alexander 325 BCE	1573 map Friesland	1st century Germanic tribes
4th century Teutonic migrations	German dialects 1910	Doggersbank sea map 1781	14th century Europe
Pomponius Mela	Mercator	3	4

Women, maidens, virgins, priestesses

"Awakening" by Selene Regener (2014)	writing woman with Minerva and Fama 1643	Vestal virgins 1781	N. vd Waay 1
Vestales	queen Guinevere	Fortuna	churchgoing orphan girls
harvest	2	3	4

link Vestal virgins at fire altar (black-white 1783 etching)
link vd. Waay - orphan girls going to church

Flood

			1679
1	2	3	4
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Wheel

	saint Catherine	Krodo in Saxon Chronicle 1492	Mahabarata
wheel of Fortune	spinning wheel	3	4
1	2	3	4

Religion various

medieval idol worship	Frisian king Redbad refuses baptism	Buddha and companion?
burning books at Ephesus	Bog Rod	3	4
1	2	3	4

Mythology

Neptune	Minerva/ Athena	Cecrops	Freja
Freya and Heimdall	2	3	4
1	2	3	4

Manuscript

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1933 - 1943

dr H. Wirth	Dutch agrarian union	Wewelsburg landscape design	'wheel-cross' in booklet for SS-families
'yule-lantern', December gift to SS families	wheel on SS Chiemsee Cauldron	1939 mother's brooch by Otto Gahr	4
1	2	3	4

Various, modern

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1	2	3	4
1	2	3	4

Classical sources referred to by Ottema (1878)

(the more significant ones)

Dr. J.G. Ottema, (1878)
Historical notes and clarifications to Oera Linda
(2020 English edited translation with links to sources)

A work in progress

Author	Title	Original	English Translation	Part(s)
Arrian (c.85-c.160 CE)	Anabasis of Alexander I-VII	Greek (Perseus)	1884 Wikisource	5.4, 6.17-21, 6.28
,,	Indica (Anabasis VIII)		1933 Fordham	ch.33
Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE)	Gallic War	Latin (Perseus)	1869 Perseus	1.31, 3.12-13, 5.14, 6.21-28
Cassius Dio (c.155-c.235 CE)	Roman History	Greek (Perseus)	1927 Lac.Curt.	53.12
Diodorus Siculus (c.90-c.30 BCE)	Library of History	Greek (Perseus)	var. Lac.Curt.	5.27-28
Herodotus (c.485-c.425 BCE)	Histories	Greek (Perseus)	1920 Perseus	1.145, 4.44, 5.16, 7.125-126
(various?) c.300-400 CE?	Historia Augusta	Latin (Lac.Curt.)	var. (see Latin)	Aurelian 44, Carus e.a. 14, Sev. Alex. 60
Homer (c.750 BCE?)	Odyssey	Greek (Perseus)	1919 Perseus	8.121
Livy (c.60 BCE-c.15 CE)	History of Rome	Latin (Perseus)	1929 Perseus	21.8
Plato (c.425-c.345 BCE)	Timaeus	Greek (Elpenor)	1871 (see Greek)/ 1925 Perseus	24e-25d
,,	Critias	Greek (Perseus)	1925 Perseus	113a-121c
Pliny the Elder (24-79 CE)	Natural History	Latin (Perseus)	1855 Perseus	8.17, 9.57
Plutarch (c.45-c.120 CE)	Isis and Osiris	Greek (Perseus)	1936 Lac.Curt/ Perseus	ch.12
,,	Virtues of Women	Greek (Perseus)	1874 Perseus	ex.6
,,	Parallel Lives	Greek (Perseus)	>1923 Lac.Curt	Demetrius, Demetrius vs. Antony, Pompey
Pomponius Mela (c.40 CE)	Description of the World	Latin (Hathi)	1998 Hathi	1.27-32, 3.48-51
Saxo Grammaticus (c.1160-c.1220 CE)	Historia Danica	Latin (pdf 1839)	1905 Gutenberg/ Sacred Texts	lib. I-III, V
Strabo (c.65 BCE-c.25 CE)	Geography	Greek (Perseus)	1903 Perseus/ 1917-1932 Lac.Curt	1.3.4, 2.3.4-6, 6.1.6, 7.2.3, 8.7.1, 15.1.66-67
Suetonius (c.70-c.125 CE)	Lives of the Caesars	Latin (Lac.Curt)	1889 Perseus/ 1913 (see Latin)	Vitellus 14
Tacitus (c.55-c.120 CE)	Annals	Latin (Perseus)	1873 Perseus	2.6
,,	Germany and its Tribes	Latin (Lat.Lib./ Perseus)	1873 Perseus	3, 6-8, 12-15, 17-21, 23, 26, 35, 44
,,	History I-V	Latin (Lat.Lib./ Perseus)	1873 Perseus	4.61-65
,,	Life of Agricola	Latin (Perseus)	1876 Perseus	11

Ottema's OL publications and where to find them

Dr. J.G. Ottema, ca. 1875

In Chronological order

Used abbreviations:

• FG - Friesch Genootschap (Frisian Society)
• GAO1/ GAO2 - Geschiedkundige aanteekeningen en ophelderingen bij Thet Oera Linda Bok (Historical notes and clarifications to the OLB) 1st (1873) and 2nd (1878) extended edition
• HC - Heldersche Courant (newspaper)
• LC - Leeuwarder Courant (newspaper)
• OLB1/ OLB2 - Thet Oera Linda Bok 1st (1872) and 2nd (1876) corrected edition
• NS - Nederlandsche Spectator
• SB - Sandbach translation of OLB1 (1876)

Also of use: list of classical sources referred to by Ottema (1878)

date d/m/y	title and description	NL	EN
Feb. 1871	Der Friezen herkomst volgens het boek van Adela (Origin of the Frisians according to Adela's book) - lecture FG, partly in LC (29-8-1871) and as Inleiding (introduction) in OLB1 and OLB2	yes	yes
10-9-1871	Eene reis langs den Rijn in de zesde eeuw voor Christus (A journey along the Rhine in the 6th century BC) - LC [this was merely a fragment of Ottema's transliteration p. 108-118 (Apollania’s Journey), without any commentary]	-	-
19-9-1871	Thet Bok thêra Adela folstar (The book of Adela's followers) - reply to mr. Colmjon in LC	yes	yes
27-9-1871	Friesch handschrift in het bezit van den Heer C. Over de Linden te Helder (The Frisian manuscript of mr. C. Over de Linden, Helder) - HC [this article is identical to the one in LC of 19-9 (reply to Colmjon), only the title is different]	-	-
14-10-1871	Adela's boek. Brief aan mr L. Ph.C. van den Bergh (Adela's book. Letter to mr vd Bergh) - NS [original not found yet]	yes	yes
1872	Thet Oera Linda Bok (1st edition translation + transcript, incl. list of improvements) - * please use 2nd corrected edition (1876)	*	SB
1872	Vergelijkende taalproeve van de Oud Friesche wetten, en de taal van het handschrift (Experimental comparison of the manuscript-language relative to that of the Old Frisian laws) - in OLB1 and OLB2	-	-
1873	[GAO1] Geschiedkundige aanteekeningen en ophelderingen bij Thet Oera Linda Bok (Historical notes and clarifications to the OLB) 1st edition - * please use 2nd extended edition (1878)	*	-
1873	Germanen (Germanic peoples) - addendum to GAO1 and GAO2 (5 pages)	yes	yes
May 1874	De Koninklijke Akademie en het Oera Linda Boek (The Royal Academy and the OLB) - brochure 20 pages	yes	yes
16-3-1876	De Deventer Courant en het Oera Linda Boek (The Deventer Newspaper and the OLB) - lecture FG, later brochure 29 pages (june)	yes	yes
Sept. 1876	Voorbericht (preface) to OLB2	yes	yes
Oct. 1876	Leeuwarden, de Middelzee en het Oera Linda Boek - brochure 5 pages [this short essay is included in GAO2; p.34-37 "Van den beginne af ... ter plaatse heeft bevonden."]	yes	-
5-10-1876	Het handschrift van Thet Oera Linda Bok heeft al langen tijd vóór het jaar 1600 bestaan (The OLB manuscript existed long before 1600) - FC, later added to OLB2 (4 pages)	yes	yes
Oct. 1876	Thet Oera Linda Bok (2nd edition translation + transcript)	yes	-
29-3-1877	reply to Wie heeft het Oera Linda Boek geschreven? (Who wrote the OLB) - FC, later added to GAO2 (2 pages)	yes	yes
13-9-1877	reply to De Pandschâb Kolonie van het Oera Linda bok (The Punjab colony of the OLB) - FC, later added to GAO2 (3 pages)	yes	yes
1878	[GAO2] Geschiedkundige aanteekeningen en ophelderingen bij Thet Oera Linda Bok (Historical notes and clarifications to the OLB) 2nd extended edition	yes	yes