Posted on 07/28/2019 7:39:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
An inscribed ancient Egyptian scarab and five clay tablets with carvings of naked women have been found in Rehob, a 3,500-year-old city in Israel.
The carvings likely depict ancient fertility goddesses, such as Asherah or Ashtarte, Amihai Mazar, an archaeology professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, told Live Science. "[They] were used at home, as part of popular domestic religious practice in the domestic sphere, mainly related to fertility of women," Mazar said in an email, noting that similar carvings have been found at other archaeological sites in the region...
Made of a mineral called steatite, the scarab contains a hieroglyphic inscription saying that it was created for a deceased man named "Amenemhat," who was "scribe of the house of the overseer of sealed items," according to Arlette David's translation of the inscription.
The "sealed items" referred to in the title represent various products and raw materials dealt with by the administration," wrote David, an archaeology lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in the appendix of the journal article.
It's a mystery who exactly this individual was and what the scarab was doing in the building where it was found. "Since there is no other attestation of an Amenemhat 'scribe of the house of the overseer of sealed items,' we don't know anything else about him, including where he was buried," David told Live Science in an email.
David noted that it's possible that Amenemhat never lived in or visited Rehob and the scarab may have been used in Rehob as a reminder of Egypt's control over the area.
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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
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Posted on 6/25/2016 9:29:28 AM by SunkenCiv
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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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