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Hermione Wrote:
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> The point is that the pyramids - in particular,
> Djoser's - are the first known constructions to
> have had the royal cubit measure used in their
> construction.
I suspect that they would probably do as they did for other royal workshop objects; send copies to the main workshops in major cities to make sure things were done according to the officially accepted standard of the time. Thus we'd see these same dimensions reflected in free standing buildings such as mastabas. Other lengths would probably use this royal standard since the king was not fond of being cheated out of anything.
I'd discount the dimensions of rock carved tombs since those are going to depend on geology, among other things.
> The Great Pyramid as a tomb of Osiris? I don't see
> it. Osiris was connected with Abydos. And Khufu,
> as we know, was a Fourth Dynasty king,
Agreed. Abydos was where Isis reassembled Osiris' body. I don't think that Giza was a traditional place where any of the pieces of Osiris' body were found.
-- Byrd
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