"Who is this?" Dio asked.
"Issachar, son of Hamuel, a Jewish priest of Amon."
"But how can an unclean Jew be a priest?"
"He is a Jew on his father's side, but an Egyptian on his mother's. Their prophet, Moses, was also a priest in Heliopolis."
"But why is he not shaven?"
Dio knew that all Egyptian priests shaved their heads.
"He is hiding from the king's spies," Pentaur answered.
"What did you speak to him about?"
"About your meeting Ptamose."
They came to the western gates of Amon's temple; the leaf gold that covered them glowed like fire in the light of the setting sun. Three words had been inscribed on them in hieroglyphics of dark bronze: "Amon, great spirit." The word Amon was effaced, but that made the other two words glorify the Unutterable the more.