MJ Thomas Wrote:
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> I see no reason to even suggest that Herodotus did
> anything other than record to the best of his
> ability what the priests told him.

Agreed ...

> Problem is we don't know how accurate his account
> is because we have no way of checking it.

His account of the visit to the pyramid, and the fact that there was an inscription on it, is surely corroborated by the fact that there was an inscription on Menkaure's pyramid that's since come to light ... The accuracy of the translation of the hieroglyphs given to Herodotus (which he would have had no way of checking) seems very suspect, however.

> However, I, too, am bothered by this arguement
> that the priests concerned were able to accurately
> read and understand an allegedly
> two-thousand-year-old text.

Yes ...

> Having recently watched again the movie Monty
> Python's Life of Brian, I am almost minded to see
> this writing on the wall as nothing more than AE
> graffiti...

I do wonder whether the priests who accompanied Herodotus (or the generations of priests before them), unable to read the inscription on the GP properly, but having some knowledge of offering formulae, had somehow got the idea that this, too, must be an offering formula, and translated it accordingly ...

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