[vannrox]

Always a surprise! A Birth Brick?

[parsifal]

Maybe birth bricks help lay a good foundation for the child's health? Bump. parsy.

[Mushinronshasan]

Always a surprise! A Birth Brick?

Hmm, I didn't know they were birthed. I've always heard they arrived via a different orifice.

[mvpel]

The Egyptians likened the birth of a child to the rising of the sun at daybreak.

Wow, that's pretty poetic for as death-obsessed as ancient Egyptian culture was.

[Consort]

al Wadi al Jadid

Abydos is not in southern Egypt It is part of one of these Governorates. (I think.)

Sawhaj

[cubreporter]

After reading about it maybe the women themselves buried it! :)))

[martin_fierro]

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[TommyDale]

Actually, on closer examination, the brick was found to have been emitted by a Pharoah upon learning that his army drowned while chasing Moses.

[RightOnline]

"The upper surface of the birth brick discovered at Abydos, unlike the bottom and sides, is crumbled away. "It is quite possible," Dr Wegner notes, "that the damage to the top of the brick --and another like it that has not been preserved-- was caused by its use to support a woman's feet in childbirth for a long period of time and during multiple deliveries." "

Ummm..............and I suppose the fact that it's 3700-freakin'-years-old has nothing to do with it.

[MissAmericanPie]

I would have appreciated having a couple of these bricks to bounce off the head of the nurse in charge during my delivery.

[Vidalia]

Jeez, we were eating spaghetti from earthen plates with a "Hathor" motif until this "came out"...

[this_ol_patriot]

12/Zog/5702:

Archaeologists uncover 3700-year-old 'magical' birth bed in Philadelphia.

[lentulusgracchus]

Thanks for the post. I chased the link to Eureka Alert and passed a link to my archaelogist kinsman. He's not an Egyptologist, but one or another of his colleagues on faculty probably is.

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