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It’s even clearer in this one that the character at bottom is largely covered in mortar:
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I find that Perring remains the best guide to location. The Rowe/Reisner drawings are not explicit on location, but cross-referenced with Perring, they may be read as a record of a journey through the chambers, i.e. the numbered sequence makes sense spatially:
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The Hill facsimiles also have notes on location, but to see them you would still need to go to the British Museum (having obtained permission to view in advance). On these I benefit greatly from the detailed notes taken by Markus Pössel.
The drawings by Alan Rowe fall somewhere between photographic accuracy and transcription. They are a trained Egyptologist’s record of what the characters are.
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nfr sign is marked as ‘Cheops 81’ and to the right of this is an apparently unnumbered group (which we should probably take as a continuation of Cheops 81). This is the group we are talking about. It’s also in the Perring, top right, block next to the cartouche (Heidelberg link above).
Rowe shows a character which Perring largely omits: it’s the one largely covered in mortar. Rowe used his knowledge of Egyptian script to work out what the character is and then drew it as such. Perring didn’t have such knowledge: he drew (as well as he could) what the thing looked like. This suggests to me that the character in question was much the same in 1837 as it is now (largely covered in mortar).
As for more detailed images, we hit a wall. The group in question is not included in the Hill facsimiles—and as for photographs of these marks, it’s very, very rare for them to be published. It seems to have been largely assumed that this is a topic for specialists only, lacking in visual appeal—while for Egyptologists it’s a done deal, with nothing to add and no kudos to gain by doing so. In Egyptology, as in any academic field, you score points by doing new stuff.
But yes, this could be where someone touched the mortar . . .
On Cheops 83, there seems to be no explanation for the absence of some numbers from the sequence. My (not very deep) guess is that the mark recorded was deemed too unclear for the final cut.
M.
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