a krater in the British Museum
Andrew McGowan agrees with Lombatti to an extent, seeing the image on the ‘Jesus Discovery’ or ‘Patio Tomb’ (or whatever you want to call it) as a vessel of some sort and says so explicitly in a post today on his blog, concluding
Vases of various shapes were used as grave goods in Greco-Roman settings – many of the vases now found in museums came from such sources. But at the risk of over-reading the image on the ossuary, it is the type of vase used at banquets, that has overtones of eternal festivity and bliss, as funerary art often did. Maybe recognition of the krater will help put this to rest as well.
I doubt it will be put to rest but the evidence is overwhelming that the fish interpretation is just wrong. Of course had we actually been allowed to see the ossuary instead of a distorted and manipulated picture of a portion of it the ‘tower’ interpretation could have been bypassed immediately and claims now that ‘interpretations are changing by the day’ rendered unnecessary.
Related articles
- Rollston Eviscerates the ‘Jesus Discovery’ Claim (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
- Christian tomb talk leads to a fuss over a fish (cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com)
