<HTML>Hi Brad,
Good post. I have an interesting reference for you which I note John Wall has already anticipated! (obselete sources!!);
>>the Osireon... was made for celebrating the mysteries of Osiris, and so far is unique amongst all the surviving buildings of Egypt. It is clearly early for the blocks are of the style of the Old Kingdom; the simplicity of the building also point to it as O.K.. The decoration was added by Setekhy 1 who in that way laid claim to the building, but seeing how a pharoah claimed the work of his predecessors by putting his name on it, this fact does not carry much weight. It is the style of the building, the type of the masonry, the tooling of the stone, and not the name of a King wcich dates a building in Egypt.*
*Though Sir Flinders Petrie was not altogether prepared to agree with me .... he pointed out to me the place where another Osireon is perhaps waiting to be unearthed.
M.Murray(1951) UCL.
Best,
John.</HTML>
