Posted on 07/28/2019 7:39:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
It’s annoying how archaeologists attribute everything to religion. As if that little nude figurine couldn’t have been some kid’s porno stash.
Amenemhat was a common name in the XII dynasty, I know that much.
They were on the wall of a thirteen year old boy. In between the bricks they found papyrus pictures and white socks. The archeologists think it might have been a fertility ritual.
The archeologists kids snickered in the background.
Porn is apparently older than we thought.
You are correct: Steatite was not the stone I was thinking of. Rather: “Most statuary was painted; even stones selected for the symbolism of their color were often painted. For instance, the exemplary statues of Menkaure, builder of the smallest of the three major pyramids at Giza, were executed in dark schist (also called graywacke). This smooth black stone is connected with Osiris, resurrected god of the dead who was often shown with black or green skin referring to the fertile silt and lush vegetation of the Nile valley.
These images preserve traces of red paint on the king’s skin indicating that, when completed and placed in his memorial temple near his pyramid, they would have appeared lifelike in coloration. With time, the paint would have flaked away, revealing the black stone underneath and explicitly linking the deceased king with the Lord of the Underworld.
Wanna come back to my place and see my carvings?
Is that an artifact under your animal skins, or are you just happy to see the “fertility figure”?
:-))
Please, I prefer the term "immoral literature", but I went to college in the 1970s. Posterity will want to study it for purely sociological reasons. Of course, you try to call up those old Playmates, the phone number will be taken by a nursing home somewhere...
They'll probably find interesting things carved into stalactites and stalagmites, but only visible now under thousands of years of laters using modern technology...
Yup. An Egyptian presence in Canaan (whatever it may have been called at any given time) is intermittent, but goes back at least to Dynasty 0.
When I was in High School, my biology teacher was a former playmate. She was still hotter than the surface of the sun. Some of us were somewhat distracted by her ‘assets’. Despite the distractions, I did pretty well in that class.
Sounds like a great high school. :^)
A fertility drug? There’s nothing in the brief article to explain this strange assumption. It’s soapstone, a soft rock. Is there some unspoken effect of soapstone upon the female reproductive system going unsaid, here? What sort of fertility “drug” could a soapstone carving be? Or, is the author just ignorant and confused?
More of a visual stimulus. Seems to have worked, they wound up with billions of living descendants. :^)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE49NdNnBxA
Wealthy 3,600-year-old Trading Hub Found in Gaza
Haaretz | May 20, 2016 | Philippe Bohstrom
Posted on 6/25/2016 9:29:28 AM by SunkenCiv
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3443537/posts?page=10#10
None of the schools I attended would have hired a former Playmate.
Moral turpitude, you know.
OK. I know something was going on. Don’t know if it was aliens or whatever. But it wasn’t cave men with chisels, if ya know what I mean.
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