Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Hi Hermione. I have re-read the quote and it
> clearly states that the cartouche found on the
> wall was an unknown name for Khufu by
> Egyptologists at the time of the discovery.
>
>

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It was not known
> > by any Egyptologist at that time that Egyptian
> > pharaohs had 5 names, two of which would be
> > circled with a cartouche. No Egyptologist at
> that
> > time knew that the Horus name of Khufu was Hor
> > Medjedu. Yet "Hor Medjedu" was one of the
> hieratic
> > hieroglyphs scrawled on those relieving chamber
> > walls.

>
> Could you explain to me how I have apparently
> misunderstood this quote which, to me, is crystal
> clear

(I think the text that you quoted comes from here: [www.amazon.com] )

I'm wondering if we're somehow at cross-purposes here ...

As stated in a previous post, it was known in the early 19th century (following the work of Barthelemy) that the presence of a cartouche indicated the presence of a royal name.

But, as explained by mstower, the royal name Hor Medjedu was unknown in 1837. And nor did anyone know that it doesn't appear within a cartouche.

The implication of the presence of the Hor Medjedu name (as part of an aper name) is therefore that it was traced on stone blocks intended for the relieving chambers, not in 1837 AD, but ca. 2,450 BC (by an aper scribe whose task it was to indicate which blocks his particular crew would be responsible for, and in which part of the RCs they were to be placed).

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