Hello Clark!
I have seen this in a few other places. To my knowledge,
the 'C' to which you refer is a qualifier, identifying
"A.D." and "B.C." as a Christian-based dating system.
(Hence 'C' for Christian, as in "Anno Domini, Christian" and
"Before Christ, Christian".)
Less-partisan variants:
#1 - B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) and C.E. (The Common
Era) - using the years 1 BCE and 1 CE as the division. (For
a great explanation, see:
http://www.radix.net/~dglenn/defs/ce.html.)
Also:
#2 - B.P. (Before Present), further qualified by the date
the report was written.
Sincerely,
Jay Heuman
Visitor & Volunteer Services Coordinator
Joslyn Art Museum
2200 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, 68102
342-3300 (telephone) 342-2376 (fax) www.joslyn.org
"You can’t lock up art in a vault and keep it frozen for
posterity. Then the artist is betrayed, history is
betrayed."
(Walter Persegati)
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Subject: Re: ADC and BCC
This may be an elementary question, but I figure someone
on the listserv would be able to help me.
I have had a summer student assist me with an exhibit here
at the Museum and one of the reference books that we have
for archeological material dates artifacts by A.D.C. and
B.C.C., such as pottery shards from 600 B.C.C.
We were wondering, the terms I grew up with were BC and
AD, what does the last C refer to?
Thanks in Advance
Clark Bernat
Managing Director
Niagara Historical Society & Museum
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
905.468.3912
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