Food as 'Grave Goods': Since Paleolithic times, food has been buried with the dead. Just look at one of Egyptologist James Henry Breasted's sketches below. Christianity, however, made clear that the body requires no nourishment in the afterlife. Food, as a result, is never interred with bodily remains and only rarely appears on headstones. An exception appears below. [2009]
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| "Looking Down Into the Grave of a Late Stone Age Egyptian" J. H. Breasted, Ancient Times, 1916, p. 38 |
Apples, grapes, several varieties are grown in Connecticut; bananas... probably not. A jug of cider is the focal point of this pastoral offering.
ReplyDeleteBut what is unusual is the connection between the bucolic display and the name "Jardine". In French as well as in Spanish "garden" is respectively "jar din" and "jardín". "Jardine" is also the 1st and 3rd person of the present indicative of "jardiner", "to garden." Coincidence?