Jon_B Wrote:
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> >who knows what might be found in the Cairo
> museum<
>
> Interestingly writing in 1929 Clarke &
> Engelback comment that:
>
> "...the Cairo Museum possesses but one example,
> which might conceivably have been used by masons,
> namely the very rough, ill-divided rod found in
> the tomb of Sennutem at Thebes."

"very rough, Ill-divided" seems to be appropriate for many 18th dynasty rods.
>
> They go on to excluded the examples from the tomb
> of Tutankhamun as they hadn't been fully described
> at that time.
>
> I'm aware of four complete cubit rods on display
> in Cairo Museum now along with some other
> fragments, again excluding the Tutankhamun ones.
> Who knows what else they've got in the basement
> though.

That little red inked treasure known as the Saqqara ostracon perhaps.