Hans_lune Wrote:
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> I would add
> not to forget the Goyon-Grinsell mark found on the
> outside core stones.
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> [
i.imgur.com]
Indeed ...
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Leslie Grinsell (1907-1995) was an English archaeologist who, after the Second World War, was based in Egypt with the RAF. In his 1989 autobiography, he describes red ochre inscriptions that, in the later 1940s, were still visible in the dawn light on blocks on the west faces of the pyramids, containing: … phrases such as “this side up” (important as sedimentary rock has to be used in a building the same way up as the position it occupied in its original stratum). (citing: Grinsell, An Archaeological Autobiography, 1989: 18.)
Despite the importance of the stratum placement, I think I have since read somewhere that the markings might not have read "this side up," but could actually have been an aper name: not that anyone can ever check, because the mark has apparently faded, and Grinsell doesn't seem to have kept any copy.
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... a well-known French Egyptologist, Georges Goyon (1905-1996), a contemporary of Grinsell, published a particularly interesting crew mark found on the backing stones of the Great Pyramid: [(Les Inscriptions et Graffiti des Voyageurs sur la Grande Pyramide, 1944: 27, Pl. CLV).
Cue the image linked in your post ...
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The mark illustrated by Goyon includes the cartouche of Khnum-Khufu, which, as previously noted, incorporates signs representing a jug and a ram. The triangular, tent-like sign to the left is probably pr, a determinative telling us that this is a crew name: but a crew name outside the pyramid, and not hidden away inside it. [30] It might very well have been one of the marks seen by Grinsell. ( [
www.amazon.co.uk], Pt. 2, Ch. 24)
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