cladking Wrote:
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> fmetrol Wrote:
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> > You are attempting to get rid of all the
> problems
> > as I see it by denying there was anything
> worth
> > taking in the first place. Its been
> suggested
> > before and if you start with an unfinished
> > sarcophagus ...
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> >
>
> The existence of the sarcophagus is the fly in the
> ointment.
The existence of an unfinished sarcophagus is the fly in the ointment.
> It was built into the chamber and is very similar
> (essentially
> the same) as other burial vaults of the era. One
> has to believe
> that it is probably related to some funerary
> function.
It has some unique features. It is not embedded into the floor nor is there a defined base into which it can be inserted. It was designed to take a thin lid not a thick lid and it was never polished (inside or outside). It remains stark, rough and blemished in comparison to other sarcophagi
> But it might not have been intended as a permanent
> receptacle for
> the king's remains.
We will never know, It wasn't finished
There appears to have been a
> several day rite
> and this may have been used for only parts of the
> ceremony. Even
> if it were permanent there's a possibility that
> building the pyra-
> mid was more important than its completion. That
> is, maybe kings
> could be "launched" at any stage of its
> construction or afterward.
> He might only have been interred if he died at the
> right time.
I only half buy that. There was an ongoing search for ways and means to mount the ladder. It was a complicated process that called for Thoth's magic to be incorporated in stone. If Khufu died early and the chamber mechanism wasn't in place by the end of the pickling process then it's possible that everyone lost interest. He would have either been buried in an unidentified chamber within the pyramid or he has his own tomb on the plateau, as yet undiscovered.
>
> There are enough mysteries about these that it
> seems very risky to
> make many conclusive statements.
I find it hard to disagree with that.
>Consider for
> instance the iron
> found imbedded in the wall. With the care taken
> in construction,
> the rarity of iron, and its inappropriateness one
> has to suspect it
> was intentional.
Graham