Kuttamuwa Stele:
the Soul in the Stone -
a neo-Hittite (ca 750 bce)
funerary monument recovered in southeastern Turkey with an inscription indicating that Kuttamuwa, the man depicted, believed the soul was separate from the body and that his soul lived on in the funerary slab.
- Eudora Struble,
University of Chicago
The stele was set against a stone wall in the corner of the small room, with its protruding tenon or "tab" still inserted into a slot in a flagstone platform.
- culturekiosque
cemetery in Turkey
photo by Pascal Sebah 1823-86
note use of tenon joints
 Cairo: Turkish Cemetery ca 1875
 Cairo: Tombs of the Mamelukes ca 1875
 Cairo: cemetery in the desert ca 1875
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THE
slot & tab
TOMB
IN THE
middle east
- did these muslim
slot&tab tombs
in Turkey, Israel/Palestine
& Egypt
inspire the christian
slot&tab tombs
of northeast Georgia USA?
- or is it a case of
spontaneous synchronicity?
- which is easier to believe?
tom@kunesh.net 2012
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muslim cemetery, Jaffa, Israel
photo by Team Palestina
Northern Cemetery, Necropolis, Cairo
Al-Qarafa, The City of the Dead, Cairo
photo by Alessandro Molatore
Necropolis, Cairo, Egypt
photo by Jim Shannon
EGYPT: Living in a cemetery
IRIN video 2008 Cairo
  photo by Galen Frysinger
 trailer: A Cidade dos Mortos
The City of the Dead
de Sérgio Tréfaut
am impressed that, so far, am unable to see any similar tombs in the Wadi al-Ghari / Wadi Es-Salam / Wadi Al Salam/ Valley of Peace, cemetery in Najaf, Iraq, the largest cemetery in the world
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