Facsimile No. 3 printing plate reveals jackal head Anubis

[_Jersey Girl]

I'm creating a simple website for the Facsimile No. 3. It's coming along nicely. PRESENTATION is everything.

I'm ready. Bring it!

[_Shulem]

I'm creating a simple website for the Facsimile No. 3. It's coming along nicely. PRESENTATION is everything.

I'm ready. Bring it!

I guarantee you will be thrilled with the presentation and it will utterly delight you. You'll bookmark it and pass it on.

It will go viral. Toast one or two for that!

Count on it.

[_moksha]

It's going to be a thorn in the side of the church.

It will probably receive a scathing review in the Mormon Interpreter. Wonder who will be assigned to write it?

[_Shulem]

It's going to be a thorn in the side of the church.

It will probably receive a scathing review in the Mormon Interpreter. Wonder who will be assigned to write it?

They have never dealt with something like this before and will be broadsided so much they won't know what to say or how to react. What will they do, attack Joseph Smith himself? That is what they will have to do in order to defend their own views. Throw Joseph Smith under the bus and run him over.

It's win win for me and a big lose for them. They ARE going to be so sorry. Just wait.

[_Tator]

I'm creating a simple website for the Facsimile No. 3. It's coming along nicely. PRESENTATION is everything.

This is terrific news. I impatiently wait. Way to go Paul

[_DonBradley]

8 or 9? 8.9? Bah!

You've found a place on the printing plate where a chiseled-away snout is visibly present. And it has visible fangs. And the appropriate ear has always been present. And the snout was, from an egyptological perspective, always to be expected.

That's a 10. Or, if we're being cautious, a 9.99.

Bravo, Shulem, on the brilliant discovery!

Don

[_aussieguy55]

Does that mean when Smith pasted Fac 1 on the backing paper the head would have been missing so he would have no idea of the correct figure and simply added the same head as the reclining figure? So a "slave" with a snout would not have looked good and had to go.

[_Shulem]

8 or 9? 8.9? Bah!

You've found a place on the printing plate where a chiseled-away snout is visibly present. And it has visible fangs. And the appropriate ear has always been present. And the snout was, from an egyptological perspective, always to be expected.

That's a 10. Or, if we're being cautious, a 9.99.

Bravo, Shulem, on the brilliant discovery!

Don

Thank you! If only we had the original vignette to prove the point. You'd think that both vignettes used to make Facsimile No. 1 & 3 would have paired up and remained together seeing they were from the same roll. It's commonly believe that the 3rd Facsimile was burned in the Chicago fire but somehow I seriously doubt that seeing that Facsimile 1 is alive and well in the church vault. Do you think Facsimile No. 3 is also in the vault under lock and key? If the original papyrus vignette for Facsimile No. 3 were to surface and show Anubis with a jackal head this would also mean that Anubis in the first Facsimile also had a jackal head and that proves Smith's reconstruction was wrong. It would also implicate a cover up.

[_Shulem]

Does that mean when Smith pasted Fac 1 on the backing paper the head would have been missing so he would have no idea of the correct figure and simply added the same head as the reclining figure? So a "slave" with a snout would not have looked good and had to go.

Something like that. I'm going to feature this on my new website for Facsimile No. 3. This presentation is going to be spectacularly dedicated to Joseph Smith and the saints of the Nauvoo era. The apostate church of the Latter-day Saints today be damned, I'm only concerned with Joseph Smith and his Latter-day Saints.

My website will NOT be information overload. It is designed to capture or at least effect the heart, eyes, and mind of all those who view it. With a little luck maybe I can announce it on Christmas!

[_Fence Sitter]

Does that mean when Smith pasted Fac 1 on the backing paper the head would have been missing so he would have no idea of the correct figure and simply added the same head as the reclining figure? So a "slave" with a snout would not have looked good and had to go.

It is an interesting question. I have always thought the head and hands were missing, from day one, in Fac 1, but when you look at the photo you can see what appears to be a line of glue passing over the top of the penciled in head and connecting to the waist of Hor. Does this mean that section was originally there? If not, why do we have a glue mark where no papyri occurred?

You can also see the the penciled in head looks nothing like the restored version from the woodcut. And the pencil version appears to have drawn in a raised right arm holding a knife to the left of the head. More puzzles.



See here for the JSPP's version in which you can really zoom in on the area.