City Square and Gatehouse, Beersheba

A visitor came to the shtetl, A stranger, with unrest in his step . . . No-one recognized his unrest. No-one asked him: “Stranger, are you weary?” Across the blue sky the evening drew its curtain…

This stamp seal depicts an archer shooting at a fleeing quadruped, possibly an antelope. The action is difficult to make out. From the viewer’s perspective the archer is behind the animal while the…