Figures of Babylon: oldest drawing of a ghost found in British Museum vault

The Guardian ^ | 16 October 2021 | Dalya Alberge

[blueplum]

a drawing with detailed instructions on how to send a ghost on it's merry way

[Hot Tabasco]

I’m not buying it. Looks to me like a guy with his hands tied being led to the gallows...or wherever they take them when they’re going to execute someone.

[Artemis Webb]

There is writing on the tablet explaining that it is indeed a spirit.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

So the lunatic/grifting ghost hunters have been around since when writing had been just invented. And here I thought whoring was the oldest profession. I stand corrected.

Fascinating.

[Adder]

Shamash!

[Is Jao Bai Den gone?

[I-ambush]

Who ya gonna call?

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

” lunatic/grifting ghost hunters have been around since when writing had been just invented. And here I thought whoring was the oldest profession.”

Who ya gonna call?

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A professional... LOL

[PIF]

[Theophilous Meatyard III]

A nude ghost?

[mmichaels1970]

That’s Zack Bagans.

[Red Badger]

He himself has never seen a ghost...

Nobody has.......................

[Red Badger]

PinGGGG!..............

[carcraft]

Actually this is an mage of Joe iden trying to get out of the The White House, yes he has been around that long!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

[tet68]

Finkel is a hoot.
Interesting man.

[null and void]

A nude ghost?

Ya come into this world with nothing, ya leave with nothing...

Or...

You know, you come from nothing, you're going back to nothing. What have you lost? Nothing! - Monty Python's "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"

[Little Ray]

Looks like a prisoner to me, too.
Given how gloomy the Babylonia afterlife was, that makes sense, though.

[mass55th]

"I’m not buying it. Looks to me like a guy with his hands tied being led to the gallows...or wherever they take them when they’re going to execute someone."

Maybe he didn't pay his child support.

[Honest Nigerian]

Something about slavery?
Maybe he is getting taken to the morgue lobby to receive his clot-shot?

[Grimmy]

I’m not buying it. Looks to me like a guy with his hands tied being led to the gallows...or wherever they take them when they’re going to execute someone.

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A lonely bearded spirit being led into the afterlife and eternal bliss by a lover has been identified on an ancient Babylonian clay tablet created about 3,500 years ago.

*Tomato tahmata, potato pohtatah. Or, using fancy international-type words, spaghetti sketti.

Different ways of saying the same thing.