Anthony Wrote:
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what she has
> presented here is a speculation ... nothing more
> than a fictionalized account of what might have
> happened. It has no evidence to support it, and
> is being offered as one possible scenario for
> explaining a difference in texts.
Yes, this is absolutely true ... It was only ever a speculation.
> In fact, the
> "difference in the text" may not even have ever
> existed, as we have no evidence to show the
> specific text provided by Herodotus was wrong.
Though
possible, it is, nevertheless,
unlikely that lists of vegetables would have appeared on the inscription outside the GP, when Menkaure's inscription had rather more dignified royal cartouches and the like; especially given that the priests of Herodotus' time would have had no more than a very imperfect grasp of what the hieroglyphs of an era 2,000 years before actually meant.
> In other words, it is an explanation for an event
> for which we have ZERO evidence of it having
> actually occurred.
No, my speculation, though speculation only, was not based on
zero evidence. Setting aside the question of what particular vegetables were meant anyway, either in Herodotus' era or Khufu's era, we have the evidence that the priests who accompanied Herodotus could not readily read hieroglyphs; and also the evidence that a dignified inscription to do with reburial appeared on Menkaure's pyramid. These two pieces of evidence make it less likely that the inscription on the GP was an offering formula, and more likely that it was something of an honorific nature. (Although, as I mentioned in a previous post, unless more information should come to light, this is probably a question doomed to remain forever unanswered).
It's like asking "How many
> faeries can dance on the head of a pin?"
No, it is absolutely
nothing like asking "How many fairies can dance on the head of a pin?"
> To claim it is "the closest to what actually
> happened" is horrendously sloppy methodology.
I think that MJ meant that, given the evidence to hand, the speculation was perhaps not implausible ... I don't know where methodology comes into it.
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