A severed right hand discovered in front of a Hyksos palace at Avaris (modern-day Tell el-Daba). It would have been chopped off and presented to the king (or a subordinate) in exchange for gold. This discovery is the first archaeological evidence of the practice. At the time they were buried, about 3,600 years ago, the palace was being used by King Khayan. The Hyksos were a people believed to be from northern Canaan, they controlled part of Egypt and made their capital at Avaris on the Nile Delta. CREDIT: Photo by Axel Krause
1 posted on
08/12/2012 6:57:40 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Give 'em a hand!
2 posted on
08/12/2012 7:02:34 AM PDT by
Lazamataz
(I love the Universe, and it loves me.)
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3 posted on
08/12/2012 7:03:24 AM PDT by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: SunkenCiv
"Most of the hands are quite large and some of them are very large." "There were giants in the earth in those days."
6 posted on
08/12/2012 7:08:21 AM PDT by
Oratam
To: SunkenCiv
So the enemy became a bunch of lefties. Seems things never change.
9 posted on
08/12/2012 7:13:18 AM PDT by
Track9
(Ego undermines moral courage.)
To: SunkenCiv
Does “some of them were quite large” mean within the normal range or abnormal? I wish they’d give some dimensions.
11 posted on
08/12/2012 7:31:10 AM PDT by
little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
To: SunkenCiv
Hands or scalps, the spoils of war. Not as creepy as shrunken heads.
13 posted on
08/12/2012 7:35:30 AM PDT by
Ditter
To: SunkenCiv
There must have been a glut of hands as the market for them bottomed out.
17 posted on
08/12/2012 7:51:08 AM PDT by
bgill
To: SunkenCiv
Perhaps from a later Muslim occupation?
18 posted on
08/12/2012 7:55:44 AM PDT by
JimRed
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To: SunkenCiv
...who knew; the Addams' Family "THING" has familial relatives in the ancient times...*salute!*
20 posted on
08/12/2012 8:00:35 AM PDT by
skinkinthegrass
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To: SunkenCiv
in which a soldier would present the cut-off right hand of an enemy in exchange for gold "Cross my palm ... with palm!"
To: SunkenCiv; mikrofon; Charles Henrickson
in which a soldier would present the cut-off right hand of an enemy in exchange for gold The original Digital Age.
To: SunkenCiv
Approves.
To: SunkenCiv
These are hand-me-downs war trophies from the Pharaoh`s older brother.
34 posted on
08/12/2012 9:27:44 AM PDT by
bunkerhill7
(!. what??? Who knew? .)
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35 posted on
08/12/2012 10:22:51 AM PDT by
null and void
(Day 1301 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
To: SunkenCiv
Ahmose took three hands and was given "gold in double measure," Unreported here is that his evil rebel twin, Dextrose, would lop off only the left hand of those he vanquished. Hence, the origin of the term ambidextrose! A lot of people don't know that.
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08/12/2012 10:56:17 AM PDT by
Dysart
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To: SunkenCiv
They are all right hands; there are no lefts.Thou shalt not steal...
...so, they WERE Muslims before there were Muslims? ;-')
46 posted on
08/12/2012 11:45:55 AM PDT by
ApplegateRanch
(Love me, love my guns!©)
To: SunkenCiv
***in which a soldier would present the cut-off right hand of an enemy in exchange for gold.***
There are wall paintings in Egypt showing baskets of cut off penes (penises?)of dead enemy soldiers.
47 posted on
08/12/2012 11:59:27 AM PDT by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Tyrannies demand immense sacrifices of their people to produce trifles.-Marquis de Custine)
To: SunkenCiv
Maybe they used them for measuring horses.
On the other hand, you probably wouldn’t want to be the rulers right hand man.
48 posted on
08/12/2012 2:17:41 PM PDT by
wildbill
(You're just jealous because the Voices talk oMnly to me.)
To: SunkenCiv
49 posted on
08/12/2012 3:15:28 PM PDT by
Fred Nerks
(Fair Dinkum!)
To: SunkenCiv
the Egyptians cut off a right hand of the dead enemies and then they brought the hands back to be counted. That way they could figure out how many enemy died.
It sounds gruesome, but it was accurate. Often the phrase “I took x number of hands” meant I killed that many...
Sounds like the guy in the tomb was bragging of how many folks he killed, and kept souvenirs.
However, the Hyksos were not Egyptians but Semites, so the idea that it was the punishment of a thief also might be true.
51 posted on
08/13/2012 12:10:57 AM PDT by
LadyDoc
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