Hermione Wrote:
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> To turn to your other request, for a
> representation of a pyramid in the throes of
> construction: well, I certainly don't know of any.
> Does anyone else?


I honestly thought I had one, from Dynasty V/VI... but then I checked personally with the person who most recently documented the site, sending him my picture, and he readily told me why I was wrong. And he was right.

It was my ignorance of both the language and the artistic conventions that misled me into thinking I'd found something important. To my modern eyes, it looked like a stone mason chiseling a block in front of the giant face of a pyramid. But in actuality, to the trained eye, it was just a man carving a box, drawn on a grid system that had not entirely been erased.

That very fact alone says something about what they considered more important, I suppose. We shouldn't ignore the implications.



Anthony

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.