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Palestine Exploration Fund

MUSIC TO SOOTH THE SOUL. Instead of animals, the paintings of Tomb II at Marisa depict amphoras and musicians. The musicians, near one of the internal doorways, are a male flute player and a female harpist. Both figures were defaced by local Muslims, whose religion prohibits depictions of humans; the color image, from the 1905 lithographs, attempts to reconstruct how the musicians once looked.