Chris Tedder Wrote:
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> GO: "Unfortunately I don't associate MK or NK
> rods with OK measure, Because none have been found
> I thought it advisable to look for other
> alternative ways to measure during this period. In
> fact I think early measuring rods are entirely
> absent from the historical record wherever you
> look."
>
>
> MK and NK cubit rods need to be looked at
> carefully. Probably various different types of
> cubit rods were in use depending on what they were
> used for - building, architectural design,
> surveying, tomb 'decoration' etc. and some were
> for ceremonial use.
>
>
> Why would you look for alternative ways to measure
> in the OK?

Because the setting out of any pyramid's base not only demands a good knowledge of geometry but some sort of surveying art which sights wooden posts in the distance. We have already discovered countless, as yet unexplained, post holes on the Giza plateau. Some one has already put two and two together and given us a rough idea of how the postholes may have been used. I think he was an Egyptologist.

> Nekhebau, who eventually held the title 'overseer
> of builders', started out his career by carrying
> the measuring rod (mAt) for his older brother, a
> Dyn 6 inspector of builders, and texts have
> survived in the archeological record that have
> measurements given in cubits palms and fingers.

Are you referring to a 3rd dynasty ostracon? If so then we don't see glyphs like that very often. They can be interpreted differently and I think you know who has interpreted them differently.

Graham