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Is there evidence that it was actually made in Greece or could it simply have ended up there?

You mean besides being found in Greece, made at a time range where Greeks were both powerful in the context of the hellenistic empire and had important mathematicians and astronomers like Archimedes and Hipparhos, the labels being in Greek, and the whole on-device manual being in Greek?

It was found in the ocean from what I understand, not actually in Greece. And I would consider that weal evidence anyways, e.g. coins from land found in another.

I wasn't aware it had Greek symbols on it. That's all I meant.

>It was found in the ocean from what I understand, not actually in Greece.

Well, it was found in the Aegean sea, a few hundrend feet off the coast of the namesake Greek island, thousands of miles away from any ocean.

Not any different than Arabic coins in Skandinavien burials

Very different, except if any example of "something of one culture found someplace else" applies to anything else ("The Pyramids might have been built by Celts!", "The Rosetta Stone? Possibly a work of the Chinese!", "Mayan artifacts? Aliens!"), regardless of context and circumstances.

First you commented without knowing about the mechanism, or bothering to read to learn the very basic fact that it had Greek inscriptions.

Then you came back to comment that you believe it was found "in the ocean", again not bothering to read up, which would have told you it was found next to a Greek island in the eastern Aegean sea, as far away from the ocean as possible. Clearly didn't care to know the archeaologists' consensus either.

It seems like you have some bias to make it non-Greek for some reason?

My understanding of the evidence is that it suggests the mechanism was made in Rhodes.

Where else, at the time?

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