Mark Heaton Wrote:
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I would disagree that they've misidentified the stone. As far as I know, it's typical of those from a particular quarry... and there would have been geologic surveys that identified the type of rock and its age.
> It seems likely that the relics had no official
> purpose, but perhaps whoever (accidentally?)
> dropped the (pounding?) ball was aware of tales
> that hidden in the pyramid was a symbolic design
> of one or more spheres (if not objects that were
> closer in shape to a sphere).
So you're proposing that instead of burying something in a foundation deposit (as they did with important buildings) that someone waits until 15 or 18 years into the project to climb all the way up there and stop working in order to 'accidentally' drop an ordinary pounder down into the shaft... in case the king wanted to pound rocks in the afterlife?
...because they were a fan of the sphere idea?
...instead of treating it as they did a foundation deposit and bringing a specially crafted and blessed amulet with a perfect sphere to place there along with other blessed objects?
Just 'drop a round-ish rock down there'?
> We know workmen were bold enough to leave
> unofficial markings, so why not objects?
The crew marks? Those were official markings done at the quarry by the scribes to tell them which work crew was responsible for that stone. It wasn't Bahby-Djed and Bahby-Djoe with a paintbrush making silly marks on the king's rocks.
> It is unlikely that AE thought the sun and moon
> were 2D images.
Their writings (and the Aten, actually) would disagree with your obserevation.
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