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Lamps, Scissors, and Knife

Lamps, Scissors, and Knife

When Paul had his hair cut in Cenchrea on completion of his vow, the barber probably used a pair of scissors like the Roman artifact in the upper left corner of this photograph. This type of scissors dates back at least until fifteenth-century B.C. Egypt. A pair with the same basic design was found in a fourteenth-century B.C. Amorite stratum in Emar (modern Tell Meskene), Syria. Ancient sheep-shearers also sometimes used shears like this. A Roman invented the first cross-blade scissors in about A.D. 100.
‎Song 4:2, Isa 53:7, Acts 18:18, 1 Cor 11:6

‎Image by Giovanni Dall’Orto, from Wikimedia Commons. License: Free use, attribution required


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