Again, they have no clue.
Probably used to hold up tables or other objects, this could have been a fast food place for all we know.
V is for “Victory”, “Vendetta”, and “Victoria’s Secrets”.
We Jews always love a good choice.
My “V” would be “Victoria Principal” with a sidebar “V” as in “Va, Va, Va Boom!”
Giant bird footprints?
"Looks like a baffle, a barrier that can be penetrated but reduces the speed of entry. I like the idea that panels of some kind were inserted in the slots. Baffles are flow directing vanes or panels. Useful for keeping out invaders, corraling livestock, or even for controlling the movement of air or even light and sound. Until they find some supporting artifacts, the specific use will be uncertain."
Could it have been a flow and direction control for an aqua duct? Timbers in the slots and a movable gate from the post hole? Or like here in TX a cattle chute.
Alpha and Omega?
Probably used in conjunction with some sort of wooden structures placed in the slots for measuring ephahs of grain in a standardized manner for delivery to the priests or the king.
People delivering ephahs of grain would want to know that there was a standard way of measuring what they owed or offered, and this may have served that purpose.
Because this was inside a building it probably did not concern animal sacrifice.
It is perfectly in line with the then ISO 800 BC Compliant standards for pointing at every day objects in the room...Door, window, table, emergency exit and so on.
It`s a giant counterfeiting operation.
I’ve read a lot of archaeology magazines and it seems that everything they find was used in some fashion in a religious ritual. It’s rarely a kitchen or a plain old pot or bedchamber, etc.
Not sexy enough for the donors, I reckon.
Who is to say those are Vs? Maybe they are As for Allah? sarc//off
Just looking at the picture, the area appears to be chute-like. The door is center to a narrow opening, which gradually broadens. the floor appears to slope downward from the door. This seems to suggest the use of gravity. It does appear that baffles is a likely explanation, if this is a chute.
What symbols of the same era does it look like?
God did it.
First off: there’s precedent in the Bible with God fingering the Commandments.
Secondly: there’s the axiom of IF there’s NO current scientific explanation, then ONLY God could have done it. ONLY when scientific theory arises, that God can be called questionable. Even that is suspect if such goes against the axiom of God Did It.
Right?
One thing that raises cause for pause: God didn’t build doors that way. No way and no how.
I’m sort of leaning towards them not being God-fingered.
They almost look akin to building gauges.
