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Dating from the early second century CE this was the most singular find
at the site of any of the twenty-two expeditions undertaken before the
founding of the modern state of Israel. Israeli authorities have closed
the ancient mound to all scholars, possibly because of security
concerns, since the founding of their state.
Finian-Thomasin Catalogue of Dig xvi at Tel-Ponshi, April 4, 1948
iiia is actually a collection of four hundred seventy-two painted
sheets of horn membrane (species unidentified) cut to an extraordinary
degree of regularity such that each sheet seems to be of identical
dimensions (app. 14cmx9cm). How many such sheets were originally
present is impossible to estimate. iiia was found in a sealed clay jar
along with papyrus fragments of Mandean and other gnostic writings,
which had apparently been manually shredded, possibly as packing
material for iiia.
The pigments used are a variety of metallic dyes of extraordinary
resilience, but have faded to muddiness over eighteen centuries. The
subjects of the illustrations seem to depict the traditional struggle
in Mandeanist faith between light and darkness, good and evil. What is
most extraordinary though is that each sheet seems to depict almost the
exact same scene with only minor incremental changes between them. This
has allowed a hypothetical order to be assigned to the existing nearly
five hundred sheets as well as a tentative identification of twenty-six
missing sheets from various places within the over-all sequence.
Earlier and later sheets may exist as well but cannot be identified
from the existing artifact.
Keeper Info
The sheets reflect the duality of light and dark in a manner far
more literal than scholars have recognized. Under the appropriate light
source color and detail of the sheets is completely restored. If a
means is devised to flip the images at a rate of sixty per second
(minimum fusion frequency) the images become a motion picture slightly
less than eight seconds in length. It depicts the successful summoning of {keeper's choice of GOO} which proceeds to devour the cultists involved.
If the picture is watched at least twice a day for a period of not less
than 22 days a successful idea roll will allow the viewer to learn the
summoning spell in question.
San cost for first viewing only: same as for seeing deity in
question (or slightly less as this is a {highly convincing} cartoon)
Additional San cost for viewing repeatedly 40+ times, 2d6
Cthulhu Mythos (only for viewing forty-plus times closely) +1D6% Spells: Summon [entity shown]
