s has been conjectured, a small box which contained twindice, Urim and Tummin?4 and if so what was its shape? Arewe justified to conceive it as a small casket, the emblem of Tank,with a top handle to facilitate its being carried ? or was its chiefornament like the winged sphere so widely diffused… … 1 Palestine Exploration Fund, Memoirs, torn. ii. p. 439. 2 As in Greece the xoanon was gradually disengaged from the trunk of a treeto form a figure, so with the Hebrews the ashcrah, pole, standing by the altaryielded the first rudimentary image, with face and limbs barely outlined, and dressed,as…
Hittites · Art · Jews
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