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A young Israeli found a pocket-sized tablet
depicting the torture by a Canaanite guard
of his captive, a chap with hands tied
behind his back, naked and frail as earliest man.
In the desert, near the Gaza strip,
this little tableaux and monument of Pain,
that oldest and most feared of Gods,
was plucked by child's hands
like the current generation's inheritance
of what's been passed on
since we first saw ourselves
and consciousness was born.
Source of picture: "EMIL ALADJEM/ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES", published at https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/six-year-old-finds-ancient-tablet-that-depicts-torture-d7h8tfbc3 on 01/06/20
depicting the torture by a Canaanite guard
of his captive, a chap with hands tied
behind his back, naked and frail as earliest man.
In the desert, near the Gaza strip,
this little tableaux and monument of Pain,
that oldest and most feared of Gods,
was plucked by child's hands
like the current generation's inheritance
of what's been passed on
since we first saw ourselves
and consciousness was born.
Source of picture: "EMIL ALADJEM/ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES", published at https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/six-year-old-finds-ancient-tablet-that-depicts-torture-d7h8tfbc3 on 01/06/20
Published 2nd Jun 2020
| Edited 3rd Jun 2020
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2nd Jun 2020 3:45pm
I keep coming back to this. Wanting something to say. But I can’t find words for it. Other than this is so well done.
2nd Jun 2020 11:20pm
was it made to glorify, intimidate, or to warn
against torture ? somehow I doubt it's the
last ..
against torture ? somehow I doubt it's the
last ..
