{"id":304,"date":"2008-01-31T17:05:38","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T01:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2008-01-31T17:36:38","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T01:36:38","slug":"it-depends-which-way-you-look-at-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"It depends which way you look at it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/paleojudaica.blogspot.com\/2008_01_27_archive.html#169223082403637289\">Jim Davila<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bib-arch.org\/Mazar\/bswbMazarIntro.asp\">fascinating account<\/a> of two readings of the name on a seal discovered in the Temple Mount excavations in Jerusalem. There&#8217;s a large image of the seal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bib-arch.org\/Mazar\/seal.html\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eilat_Mazar\">Eilat Mazar&#8217;s<\/a> original reading \u05ea\u05de\u05d7 was based on reading the name from the seal itself:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img src=\"http:\/\/smontagu.org\/images\/temeh.png\"><br \/><span style=\"font-size: xx-large\">???<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The revised reading \u05e9\u05dc\u05de\u05ea takes into account that one should read the name from the seal <em>impression<\/em>. Let&#8217;s try to simulate that by flipping the image:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img src=\"http:\/\/smontagu.org\/images\/shlomit.png\"><br \/><span style=\"font-size: xx-large\">????<\/span><\/div>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heardworld.com\/higgaion\/?p=896\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"note\">As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=298\">before<\/a>, to see the text below the images correctly, you will need a font that supports <a href=\"http:\/\/alanwood.net\/unicode\/phoenician.html\">\u201cPhoenician\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/firefox\/\">a browser that supports Unicode 5.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Jim Davila, a fascinating account of two readings of the name on a seal discovered in the Temple Mount excavations in Jerusalem. There&#8217;s a large image of the seal here. Eilat Mazar&#8217;s original reading \u05ea\u05de\u05d7 was based on reading the name from the seal itself: ??? The revised reading \u05e9\u05dc\u05de\u05ea takes into account that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}