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Figured Stone

Such contexts recall numerous religiousmagical relief figures on walls of Egyp. tombs and temples, Babylonian boundary markers with reliefs of protective deities and their symbols, and most specifically, the N Syrian practice of carving mythological scenes on upright stone slabs.

In Proverbs 25:11, מַשְׂכִּית, H5381, (RSV “setting,” KJV “pictures”) may refer to gold inlay in silver carved work. Psalm 73:7 (RSV “follies”) and Proverbs 18:11 (RSV footnote “imagination”) use the same root, but its meaning in these vv. is difficult to discern.

Bibliography

W. F. Albright, Archeology and the Religion of Israel (1941), 160.