A Large Disappointed Audience
Jan 29, 2007 A Large Disappointed Audience (from the Sabian Symbols) Cosmic Persona Designs (c)07 by Jude Cowell
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The Eye on the Wall
...featuring a coffin excavated from Deir el Balah...Moshe Dayan had a paw in the retrieval and collectorship of 20 of them. This design is a semi-rendition of one of the more anthropoid of the lot--anthropoid because they have human facial features. Deir el Balah is south of Gaza on the coastal plain. The sarcophagi date to the 14-13th centuries BC, a time when when Egypt's New Kingdom empire may have extended into southern Canaan. The identity of the residents of these effigies could be anyone's guess but a few of the usual suspects range from military officials, Egyptian civil servants and engineers, and other dignitaries. I can assure you that the 20 coffins make a solemn assemblage of the first water each with his expressive face in a different pose or style. Last I heard (my info is from a Biblical Archaeology Review magazine from the July/August 1986 issue...a bit outdated yet valuable as a perspective which one may hear echoing from 1986. It's a fascinating magazine...