Re: Tell Brak eye idols

On Oct 19, 3:40 am, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 19, 2:35 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



[I have had a virus since Tuesday morning]

Hope you are better now.

New hard drive. (But not because the drive crashed, so now I have an
external 40 G drive.)

You say 20,000; the excavator says 4000.

My book says that the many fragments of broken eye idols,
between 2 (two) and 11 (eleven) centimeters high, account
for an estimated number of some 20,000 eye idols.

You say 15 cm, the excavator says 3 cm. She may have shown us a 15 cm
head found in earlier levels than the eye temple, but it looks nothing
like an eye idol or a spectacle idol.

Do you mean the same male head? a long neck? wide
open eyes in trapezoid form? pierced pupils? wearing
sort of a hat or cap?

Probably.

I really can't imagine that impressive
head being only 3 cm tall. One of my books gives a large
picture, and it says 15 cm. It is _not_ an eye idol, but,

I just said that the earlier one is 15 cm.

I assume,

Contrary to all the evidence.

a statue of a god once on an altar, which the
eye idols ideally would have faced. Eye idols here, statue
of a god there, facing each other,

They are 1000 years different in age. The big one was _under_ the eye
temple, forgotten for centuries.

confirming a silent contract
by looking into each other's eyes. The same for the Sumerian
worshippers and adorants on one side, a presumable figurine
or statue of a deity on the other side, facing each other,
looking at each other ...

Your presumptions remain presumptuous.

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