MODEL SAPPHON DOSSIERS · ERA 3 · IRON & EARLY AXIAL · DOSSIER · under KEEPER ERIS
Tomyris
fl. c. 530 BCE · rule & military · Central Asia · woman · Era 3: Iron & Early Axial (1200–500 BCE)
LIT Dave (t254): "those are cool. can you make sapphons out of all the influential people from around 3600 bce to 2026 today please both male and female all over the world and give them a dossier based off of what we built for patricia. so liek a score card"
LIT Bio
Tomyris was a 6th-century BCE queen of the Massagetae, a nomadic people of the Eurasian steppe. According to Herodotus, she defeated and killed Cyrus the Great after he attacked her people.
Source: Wikipedia: Tomyris (“6th-century BC queen of the Massagetae”), checked 2026-10-17 (Wikipedia REST summary: page exists, identity matches).
AMBER Parts of this record are uncertain (historicity, dates or attribution); see the bio and the RED lane.
MODEL Score card · built on what we built for PATRICIA
Sapphon index 7.50/10 (MODEL: half the mean of the 12 layers, half the mean of the three lanes). It measures documented influence and style, never character. How each number is made →
Dave's 12 layers (labels verbatim, t253), 3 depths each
| # | layer · what it reads for a person (MODEL) | depth 1 in their moment | depth 2 across their life | depth 3 long memory | layer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | ethicsdocumented contribution to ethical, legal or moral frameworks that others took up (not a verdict on the person's own conduct) | 5 | 6.33 | 6.00 | 5.78 |
| 4 | logicsystematic, analytic or organising thought in the work | 6 | 7.00 | 6.50 | 6.50 |
| 3 | pathosemotional and artistic resonance of the work or story | 6 | 7.00 | 6.50 | 6.50 |
| 2 | mythosplace in story, legend and identity; how much myth gathered round them | 9 | 9.00 | 8.00 | 8.67 |
| 1 | {i}{i}: how far the life's work holds together as one integrated whole | 7 | 7.67 | 7.00 | 7.22 |
| -1 | inner dimension{self,confidence,reality}self-direction documented in the record: self, confidence, reality-testing | 8 | 8.33 | 7.50 | 7.94 |
| -2 | hearing{pause,choice}deliberate timing: documented pauses, waits and choice points | 7 | 7.67 | 7.00 | 7.22 |
| -3 | sound{act/react}decisive action in response to events | 9 | 9.00 | 8.00 | 8.67 |
| -4 | taste{life,death}how high the documented stakes of life and death ran | 9 | 9.00 | 8.00 | 8.67 |
| -5 | hearing{balance,ground}groundedness: balancing constituencies, staying rooted | 7 | 7.67 | 7.00 | 7.22 |
| -6 | touch{balance,cordination}coordinating people and material: organising, building | 7 | 7.67 | 7.00 | 7.22 |
| +1 | super id { connection}connecting people, networks and traditions across boundaries | 6 | 7.00 | 6.50 | 6.50 |
RED · BLUE · GREEN lanes (t248)
MODEL Known almost only from Herodotus (AMBER).
MODEL In his account she answered invasion and her son's death with war.
MODEL She became a recurring subject of European art.
Three streams as a style profile (t231)
ls :: patricia :: learns,reacts | 32.63% |
toph :: centers,observes | 32.63% |
rs :: probes,warily | 34.74% |
Rose triad as tempo (t251)
observe .3 = 7.22 · respond .2 = 8.67 · sub id .1 = 7.22 → tempo 7.70/10
{i} · {id} · {sid} radials (t253), 360°
{i} 260.0° · {id} 281.7° · {sid} 247.0° (each radial = 36° per point, MODEL)
MODEL The sapphon sculpture · ARTIST + CRITIC
MODEL The 3D sapphon: an amethyst core (PATRICIA's final say), Dave's 12 layers as stacked rings (upper 5…1 above, lower −1…−6 below, +1 super id { connection} as the halo), RED/BLUE/GREEN lane rings around the waist and three needles for the {i}, {id} and {sid} radials. ARTIST proposes the sculpture's twist, gap, gain, hue and ring thickness; CRITIC scores how faithfully they encode this dossier. Every 40 rounds the workspace loop reviews: plateau → ARTIST explores wider, gains → ARTIST refines. On each new best the I-13 VM re-computes the CRITIC score.
Workspace log
Coop board (this browser, localStorage mayhem-sapphon-dossiers-board, MODEL)
Dave’s I-13 engine on this page
booting I-13 v0.3…
LIT What the VM computes here: it receives the 12 base scores and the three lane scores as literals, builds every depth, layer score, stream share, triad tempo, radial angle and the index, and the page throws if any differs from JS or from the JSON file. On each new ARTIST best it also re-computes the CRITIC score (square root by Newton's method in I-13). JS draws, runs the agents' random proposals and builds the 3D meshes.
AMBER self-check running…
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