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Thank you for the Bing ping.

Following the link to 'images', among those right at the top were a couple that depicted David holding up Goliath's head -- after the young David had cut it off of Goliath's dead corpse.

The trouble was the first images I would have liked to use had a Getty stamp on them, even though the same illustration was apparently used at Wikimedia commons also.

Searching a bit further, I found the same image at http://catholic-resources.org/Art/Dore-OT.htm which makes me think any Getty image po-po out there in radio land can take a flying leap iftheydon'tlikeit.

Here's to hoping the image makes it past FR "preview" function. Sometimes images can show up in preview, but then be blocked

David letting the 'evil' out of Goliath? hehheh

And I was just thinking about abrupt removal of heads...

The online version just recently fell offline, the owner has to ante up again.
Philistines: Giving Goliath His Due
Marco Polo Monographs, No. 7.

by Neal Bierling
foreword by Joe E. Seger

old edition on Amazon

Giving Goliath His Due:
New Archaeological Light on the Philistines
by Neal Bierling
foreword by Paul L. Maier
The name Goliath, like Achish, is not Semitic, but rather Anatolian (McCarter 1980, 291, Mitchell 1967, 415; Wainwright 1959, 79). Not all agree though; the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (2:524) proposes that Goliath may have been a remnant of one of the aboriginal groups of giants of Palestine who now were in the employ of the Philistines. [1. Naveh (1985, 9, 13 n. 14) states that Ikausu, the name of the king of Ekron in the seventh century b.c., is a non-Semitic name that can be associated with that of the Achish of Gath in David's time. The name in the seventh century has a shin ending that is non-West Semitic.]