Hey, guess what I just came across. There's this inscription getting a little attention for allegedly - supposed to be the first ancient north Arabian attestation of biblical Midian. Above the text there are some images, one looks kinda like a simple menorah variant, one kinda looks like a wild djed variant. No reason to think they are connected, but a fun coincidence. Looking at them gives substance to the question "What level of variation from an imagined source is too much? How much similarity is required for a correspondence at this or any distance?"
https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/19711
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https://ociana.osu.edu/inscriptions/19711
https://ociana.osu.edu/uploads/inscript ... 088971.jpg
Statistics: Posted by Tanagra Sandwith — Thu Feb 27, 2025 7:57 pm
