[Avodah] Lulov Pockets

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, October 1, 2007 5:06 pm, R Zev Sero wrote about the picture on
the back of the BK-era coin:
:> But it would seem that people who actually saw such coins are okay
:> with this interpretation of their image.

: What makes them more expert than any of us at what the picture
: actually looks like?  Surely we're each equally capable of looking at
: it.

I do not have access to many such coins, and only once saw one itself
rather than the picture of one. (At the museum at the digs around the
south-west corner of Har haBayis.) I presume the experts who voice an
opinion on such things have more data to work with.

What we find on the web is multiple copies of the same two or three
pictures. You are right that the only lines on it that do not appear
vertical to my eye are ones that could be simple rings. Although why
the rings would vary in width -- narrow, wide, narrow, wide --
yeilding a vase shape, is beyond me. If I were to concede the point, I
would suggest that it's perhaps just aesthetic. However, as I said,
people who are mumchim and have more data do not reach your
conclusion.

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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