[Avodah] Shape of Luchos

[Zvi Lampel]

Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 R. Simon Montagu <simon.montagu at gmail.com> wrote:
 
"... An article in the first volume of 
the Hebrew University's "Journal of Jewish Art" by Ruth Mellinkoff 
says that ...the curved-top form is originally a representation 
of a "diptych" or set of two writing tablets, so RZL's conjecture is 
apparently not far away from da'at gedolim :) "

Was the actual diptych curved at the top, or was the curve only in the drawings using perspective, as I suggested? If the former, why? And if the latter, did the drawings also have a curve along the bottom?

Zvi Lampel