Judicial Flogging in Egyptian Painting
Middle Kingdom (Egypt), 20th–18th Century BCE
Judicial flogging in Egyptian painting, Beni Hasan, Egypt, Twelfth Dynasty (1938–1759 BCE). A culprit is held down by three men as the court overseer watches. Biblical law included provisions for corporal punishment, but restricted the number of lashes, so as not to exceed forty. Later, rabbinic law interpreted it as indicating a maximum of thirty-nine.
Credits
John Gardner Wilkinson, Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians… Illustrated by Drawings, etc., vol. 2 (London: John Murray, 1837), fig. 87, p. 41.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 1.
You may also like
A Lament for Tyre
The word of the Lord came to me: Now you, O mortal, intone a dirge over Tyre. Say to Tyre:
O you who dwell at the gateway of the sea,
Who trade with the peoples on many coastlands:
Thus said the…
Letter to Mordechai Margoliot
To the great master, the stronghold and tower, his name is increasingly great, he is my beloved master, the juice of my pomegranate (Song of Songs 8:2), my olive brimming with oil, Josheb-basshebeth a…
City of Killings
Rise and go to the town of the killings and you’ll come to the yards
and with your eyes and your own hand feel the fence
and on the trees and on the stones and plaster of the walls
the congealed…
You may also like
A Lament for Tyre
The word of the Lord came to me: Now you, O mortal, intone a dirge over Tyre. Say to Tyre:
O you who dwell at the gateway of the sea,
Who trade with the peoples on many coastlands:
Thus said the…
Letter to Mordechai Margoliot
To the great master, the stronghold and tower, his name is increasingly great, he is my beloved master, the juice of my pomegranate (Song of Songs 8:2), my olive brimming with oil, Josheb-basshebeth a…
City of Killings
Rise and go to the town of the killings and you’ll come to the yards
and with your eyes and your own hand feel the fence
and on the trees and on the stones and plaster of the walls
the congealed…