Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Random Photo 2


Found at the British Museum.

Banjo hieroglyph?
Egyptian rednecks?

7 comments:

dive said...

I play it, too, Robyn, but then I live in Deliverance Country so that explains a lot.
Hee hee for the rabbit on the grill. Those ancient Egyptians look like they had a lot of fun.

Vanda said...

Sounds like it's the account of a really smashing party with roasted rabbit and banjo music. Was there a bong on the next panel?

dive said...

Vanda: I think the guys who carved this were sufficiently tripped-out not to need a bong.

neetzy said...

Didn't the Egyptians invent beer? Beer, Banjo and Bunny brisket...sounds like a hootenanny to me!

dive said...

Neetzy: I'm beginning to realise the ancienct Egyptians were a whole lot groovier than I'd given them credit for.

peahen said...

The one next to the banjo looks like our road sign which means "Watch out for old people crossing the road".

I can't help thinking that heirogliphs are an incredibly inefficient way to write. Unless one picture means a whole paragraph, I have no idea.

dive said...

Pea: You're right: it does!

Heiroglyphs were a phonetic syllabary, like Japanese hiragana. It takes a bloody age to sign your name in them.