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“May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.” ^ Save a click
by treis 4y ago
“May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.”
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- mc32 4y agoHaving not read the article I then guess this was an instrument for the wealthy who could read? Or, would poor buy something they cannot read? Maybe if it was a common saying and then they have the meaning memorized.
- treis 4y agoIt was a lice comb so probably some sort of prayer/spell/whatever for it to work better. This particular one was ivory so it was for someone wealthy who possibly could have been able to read it. Poorer people would have used wooden combs.
- dmonitor 4y ago> probably some sort of prayer/spell/whatever for it to work better Or its like a shampoo bottle and it's written there because the carver felt like it.
- pessimizer 4y agoI would think that the carver would have done a neater job.
- groffee 4y agoExactly. Imagine 2,000 years from now "archaeologists" thinking "rinse, repeat as required" is some kind of ritual incantation on a shampoo bottle.
- pessimizer 4y agoI imagine that a magician etching your comb with magic words (i.e. all written words 4K years ago) was like going for the extended warranty.
- commandlinefan 4y ago> I then guess this was an instrument for the wealthy You guessed correctly, per the article: "It would have been like a diamond today, a crème de la crème luxury item. Others likely had lice combs too, but made of wood that would have decayed"
- inkcapmushroom 4y agoReads like it might be instructions to me.
- commandlinefan 4y ago> Save a click Well, there was more to the article than that. I was actually surprised that the Canaanite language wasn't more well documented.