[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, I was just checking for this one (below) and was surprised to see a number of other topics about and/or related to the ongoing dig at Hippos.

Mask Metamorphosis
By JARRETT A. LOBELL
September/October 2016
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/227-1609/trenches/4732-trenches-israel-pan-mask
(Courtesy Michael Eisenberg) Pan mask during (left) and after (right) cleaning and conservation
https://www.archaeology.org/images/SO2016/Trenches/Trenches-Israel-Pan-combined.jpg

[knarf]

I am fascinated by the "why" of anything.

Ancient discoveries almost always answer or question the "why"ness of itself.

Like;

A drunken revelry resulted in a patron losing his mask on the way home behind a dumpster where he had thrown up and passed out (which is why he couldn't find it after his wife threatened him with divorce if he didn't recover the wedding gift her father had given HIM as part of a dowry) and forever more lived under the shrew's nastiness.

If it happens today, it happened then .... nothing's changed about human nature.