these were in the top of a cabinet in the V&A and i stood on tiptoe with arms aloft to photograph them ...
on the way home i began to wonder about the tale of bathsheba ... and all the silly pictures her story provoked
the story itself ... i read a few chapters from a modern translation but lost interest, or rather lost patience ... on the face of it, its the usual tribal propaganda you get in most ancient myths
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... to be continued ...
