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I asked myself one simple question, “Could the crook fit over the small protrusion at the top of the djed?” This idea led me to imagine the column in three dimensions like some type of round post. The four cross bars would now look like spools. Then, so to speak, the penny dropped! I view the djed as a capstan, a tall capstan with three roped spools, two for power and one for rewinding the ropes.

Typical ethnocentric projection. What he sees is irrelevant. It's what the Egyptians saw that matters... and I can assure you they didn't see a windlass, or a spool, or a capstan.

The Djed was a sacred object... not an implement in a toolbox. He provides no background for the discovery, no evidence of technological evolution, nor any explanation for why it vanished from all records.

Just another case of "this is how I would do it", rather than "this is how THEY did it".

Anthony

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.