A Feather Headwear Crown Found in Jerusalem
In an article from 1986 a fragment of what is described as a cultic stand found in Jerusalem the figure of a bearded captive whose hair-do resembles, according to the author, the conventional Philistine style which is our Persian style. A difference between this figure and images from Medinet Habu is that this figure is presented in frontal view. For more see `The City of David After 5 Years of Digging', BAR, Nov/Dec 1985, p. 26 and also BAR, Vol. XII, Mar/Apr 1986, p. 68-69.
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View of a photograph of the only captive enemy labeled `PRSTT' from Medinet Habu. [From PSBA, June 1909, p. 232ff, Plate XXXI.]Amazingly enough at this junction all scholarly care seems to have vanished for the caption to the photo reads, `A Philistine Prisoner, temp. Rameses III.' As if by habit, without research, these scholars call the prisoner featured at Medinet Habu a Philistine. Presumably they have totally forgotten the data presented in the Canopus Decret. Or was that presented at a later date? Perhaps you could tell us the answer to that?
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For good quality close up images of walking and bound Pereset prisoners of war from the temple of Ramses III at Medinet Habu see KMT, Winter 2001/02, Vol. 12, p. 42, 43.
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