Question:
Now that Simcha Jacobovici and James Tabor are claiming that an ossuary discovered in Jerusalem has a ‘fish’ on it, can we begin referring to the Talpiot Tomb the “Tilapia Tomb“?
#St. Peter’s Fish
Filed under: humor, idiocy Tagged: | James Tabor, Jerusalem, jonah, simcha jacobovici, tilapia, tomb
I am phora that suggestion.
groan.
Love it! I vote for it…sounds kind of good, and imagine the teeshirts…
Perhaps “Photi-pot”?#
The name is Photipot, Tilapia Photipot.
And a double groan for Raymond…
# For anyone unfamiliar, that’s from the old saw about spelling ‘fish’ using the phonetic letters :
- ph from telePHone
- o from wOmen
- ti from tradiTIonal
## Not as good as the original, I know…
[...] some of the photos are of the replicas of the ossuaries that have been made on the basis of photos. Cargill also makes a pun, suggesting that perhaps we should call it the Tilapia Tomb.Joan Taylor on the ASOR blog and also Tom Verenna suggested that the image might be of an [...]