cladking Wrote:
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> Hermione Wrote:
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>
> > Perhaps near the end of the Old Kingdom, a
> man
> > called Djati, or Kanofer, who was sent on a
> > mission by an unknown king, states, according
> to
> > one translation:
> >
> Quote:I performed this work of Imhotep with:
> > 1,000 men of the pr-aA, 100 quarrymen, 1,200
> > workers (?) 50 bwt(?)-workers. (Goelet,
> Ogden
> > (1982), Two Aspects of the Palace in the
> Egyptian
> > Old Kingdom: 26–27; cited in Lehner, Labor
> and the
> > Pyramids - The Heit el-Ghurab “Workers Town”
> at
> > Giza, in LABOR IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, VOLUME
> V: 440
> > n. 209 (PDF 48).
>
> I have no doubt that quarrymen existed in the
> great pyramid building age and no doubt the word
> "quarryman" existed in some form.

Which contradicts what you say a half hour ago

Cladking said "It also needs to be pointed out that nowhere is in evidence a single quarry worker or even one dragger of stones".

But I believe
> every word had a single meaning and everything had
> three words. "Quarryman" would have been the
> vulgar form of the word and rarely used in great
> pyramid building.

You can believe in unicorns too - but for us scientific folk - how about you support this contention of yours with research and published report. I don't think anyone will ever just take your word for it. As a matter of fact no one has - but you haven't figure that out yet have you?
>
> There are no graves for ramp builders or ramp
> designers because there were no ramps per se and
> there was no need for quarry workers because they
> used the scientific form of the word on tombs.
> There was an "Overseer of Sculptors" and these
> were the quarrymen.

'Ramps per se', we have links of you admitting the word for ramp existed and that ramps existed so why can't you get your story straight for once?
>
> Obviously there were quarry workers all through
> Egyptian history just as there are today. But no
> quarry workers are known at Giza because we're
> looking in all the wrong places.

....and where should we look for these non-existent quarry workers who you say also existed

Interestingly
> enough there was no quarry either so we'll never
> find that word on site.

Huh? Well that's new so we have it from you today that there are no quarries at Giza....GOSH

The stones came from
> "tayet" which was what was left when stone
> (horuses) were removed from the "Land of Horus".

Uh huh
>
Might need some evidence for that bit of $%#$
>
> The evidence to support our beliefs isn't missing
> because of time and decay, it's missing because
> our beliefs are wrong.

....and your belief are right but you just cannot bring yourself to write'm down and support them with evidence huh?