![]() ![]() Whereas in the Sargon legend the infant is cast adrift, apparently because his mother wishes to get rid of him without taking his life, in Egyptian mythology the goddess Isis places her child Horus in a reed boat and hides him in a papyrus thicket, where her sister (not that of the infant) spreads her mat over him, in order to save him from the god Seth. The river, in Sargon's case the Euphrates, carries the basket containing him down to where his future foster father, a drawer of water, is at work drawing water. In the Sargon story the basket containing the infant is actually allowed to drift, like Noah's ark. Sargon was born in secret he was enclosed in a basket made of rushes and bitumen, and furnished with a lid and he was found and adopted by a stranger. An analogous story is told about Sargon of Agade (in: cos, 1 461). 18:2), caulked with bitumen, and placed among the reeds on the bank of the Nile (models of vessels excavated in Ur are made of bitumen and dry, baked earth finds in Egypt show the same use of bitumen). gome) like the boats of the Egyptians (cf. According to the story, the basket was made of papyrus (Heb. 2:2–6) in order to save him from Pharaoh's decree that every Hebrew male child should be killed (Ex. 6–9), and of the ark in which the infant *Moses was hidden by his mother (Ex. תֵּבָה, tevah "box" or "basket"), the Hebrew word tevah occurs in the Bible only as a designation of the *ark of Noah (Gen. ![]()
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