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DScribr Wrote:
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> Origyptian Wrote:
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> > Audrey Wrote:
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> > > Jon Ellison Wrote:
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> > > > I'll try to confirm.
> > > >
> > > > Looking at the robot pics it seems to be localised
> > > > only at or just below a U block shift fracture.
> > > > Everything else I can find seems clear.
> > >
> > > Check out this pic. But look at the huge version,
> > > now that's a photo! Am I seeing a coating on the
> > > walls? Looks like serious damage to the GG, what
> > > the hell was going on in there??? There are niches
> > > cut into each step up both sides, but they seem
> > > staggered, don't appear to line up with the niches
> > > above or below. Observations anyone?
> > >
> >
> [lostatlantis.gr]
> > >
> > >
> >
> hugeversion
> >
> > The lighting is misleading; they're not niches
> > carved into the stone, they're iron L-bars that
> > were installed on top fo the stone in recent times
> > as part of a "restoration" to prevent more
> > fragments of GG from breaking off. Not sure I've
> > seen evidence of a coating that's currently on the
> > walls of the GG, but there are plenty of chisel
> > marks that indicated something was once chiseled
> > off that once adhered to those walls. It's very
> > clear in some photos of the Long Groove (a feature
> > we don't see in any of the pyramids attributed to
> > Sneferu). Also, there seems to be chisel marks on
> > several of the 26 pairs of recesses of alternating
> > size (yet another feature not seen in any Sneferu
> > 'mid) along the GG's bench ramps that suggest
> > something was chiseled out of them, too.
>
>
> Of course, these chisel marks just couldn't have
> been the result of quarrying and dressing the
> stone blocks.
That's correct. I'm referring to chisel marks that damage the original contours of the Long Groove. They are destructive, not productive. Otherwise, those blocks are pretty smooth and generally don't show chisel marks of the original "dressing" in the photos I've seen.
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> Origyptian Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> > Audrey Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> > > Jon Ellison Wrote:
> -------------------------------------------------
> > > > I'll try to confirm.
> > > >
> > > > Looking at the robot pics it seems to be localised
> > > > only at or just below a U block shift fracture.
> > > > Everything else I can find seems clear.
> > >
> > > Check out this pic. But look at the huge version,
> > > now that's a photo! Am I seeing a coating on the
> > > walls? Looks like serious damage to the GG, what
> > > the hell was going on in there??? There are niches
> > > cut into each step up both sides, but they seem
> > > staggered, don't appear to line up with the niches
> > > above or below. Observations anyone?
> > >
> >
> [lostatlantis.gr]
> > >
> > >
> >
> hugeversion
> >
> > The lighting is misleading; they're not niches
> > carved into the stone, they're iron L-bars that
> > were installed on top fo the stone in recent times
> > as part of a "restoration" to prevent more
> > fragments of GG from breaking off. Not sure I've
> > seen evidence of a coating that's currently on the
> > walls of the GG, but there are plenty of chisel
> > marks that indicated something was once chiseled
> > off that once adhered to those walls. It's very
> > clear in some photos of the Long Groove (a feature
> > we don't see in any of the pyramids attributed to
> > Sneferu). Also, there seems to be chisel marks on
> > several of the 26 pairs of recesses of alternating
> > size (yet another feature not seen in any Sneferu
> > 'mid) along the GG's bench ramps that suggest
> > something was chiseled out of them, too.
>
>
> Of course, these chisel marks just couldn't have
> been the result of quarrying and dressing the
> stone blocks.
That's correct. I'm referring to chisel marks that damage the original contours of the Long Groove. They are destructive, not productive. Otherwise, those blocks are pretty smooth and generally don't show chisel marks of the original "dressing" in the photos I've seen.
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