Jammer Wrote:
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> Ok, your hypothesis is sound and supportive of
> their belief system, resistance to change, and the
> complications of holding to a standard in the days
> before industrialization* also.
It's a different mindset, but that's the whole point in studying it, isn't it? To ferret out the differences? What's the point in studying it to prove it was exactly the same as something else?
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> It also falls within the measured variations, both
> as forecast by Petrie, and existant in the actual
> cubit examples we have recovered.
Odd how that works, isn't it?
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> Therefore I allow it is as plausible, perhaps even
> more plausible, than my (I think far sexier)
> theory each pyramid was built using a cubit that
> was specific to THAT Pharaoh.
I like yours, but there is no textual reference to support it.
There is, however, evidence that suggests this explanation is more plausible.
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> I've said in many posts, the requirement was all
> the cubits in use on one construct be identical,
> not that cubits used on different constructs be.
Absolutely.
Puts a whole new spin on the Saqqara Ostracon, doesn't it?
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> And yes, I have noticed and posted the one example
> that doesn't appear to exist anywhere is the
> "Phantom Phi Cubit" another has based his entire
> mathmatical hypothesis on.
>
I didn't even bother looking. Why waste the time?
>
> "Phee, Phi, Pho, Phum, I smell the blood..." etc.
He's not English.
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> * PS; As an example, in the days before
> industrialization individual parts on firearms
> were NOT interchangeable. A trigger assembly hand
> fitted for one long rifle could not, without
> adjustments, be used on another. After
> industrialization one could take all the loose
> parts of a dozen Colt Peacemakers, and rebuild a
> functional 13th from the others. This is an
> absolute fact, and cannot be ignored in a theory
> that shouts standardization.
Exactly. The cubit rods used on Khufu's pyramid would not have been functional on Khafre's, and even less so on Menkaure's.
Anthony
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.
