Thursday, December 21, 2017

City Hall's Hieroglyphs

Long meetings at City Hall provide an opportunity to study seemingly ancient carvings on the doors to the Council Chambers.  All sex/gender attributions are inferences based solely on clothing style circa 1970s.

Hieroglyph 1 depicts 20th c. courtroom: jury of men and women, witness being sworn in by male clerk, male judge, female reporter/clerk
Hieroglyph 2 depicts 20th c. classroom-type setting: male instructor
Hieroglyph 3 depicts 20th c. unidentified workplace setting
Hieroglyph 4 depicts 20th c. office workplace: men reading, asking papers to be filed, women taking orders, filing, typing

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