Here's the quote again from Legon:

""As Iversen has pointed out, the Egyptians frequently referred to their works of art as being 'true', and wrote the word maet with the cubit-rod hieroglyph.8"

and in the notes:

"8. Iversen, Canon and Proportions, 7 with n.3. No evidence is cited, and the maet hieroglyph was not identified by Gardiner (Egyptian Grammar, 541). Petrie (Medum, 32) states that the sign is 'commonly recognised as a cubit', at first 'plainly the side view', to which the distinguishing bevel of the end view was later added. Gardiner perhaps failed to grasp the connection between measurement and truth. "


My bold.

"What does the reference Petrie (Medum, 32) refer to - which Petrie book?"

That's his excavation report from Meidum:

Petrie, W. M. F.
1892 Medum. London: David Nutt, 270, 271, Strand


It certainly looks like a cubit to me...

Also perhaps noting the word for cubit was amha or similar...which is pretty much the same to the word Allen is attributing to Aa11/12....

But as you say the glyph was certainly used for platform, but could there be a connection between the platform and the cubit as well which meant the signs were associated?

Dave Light.






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