Martin Stower Wrote:
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> Audrey Wrote:
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> > Martin Stower Wrote:
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> > > Another case where the limitations of your
> > > knowledge are the entirety of the problem, but
> you
> > > can’t take anyone saying so.
> >
> > Do you cranky old farts wake up in the morning
> > looking for a bone to chew on? Retirement must
> > suck.
>
> See what I mean. So much for your principled
> objection to personal remarks.
>
> > None of you are experts on hieroglyphs,
> although
> > you'd like to think you are, why should I
> believe
> > your translation? Wiki could be correct. IT IS
> A
> > NAME, OF A GIRL
>
> What on earth are you talking about? What
> is a name, of a girl?
>
> [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneb#Sculpture
> _of_Seneb_and_his_family&v=t]https://en.wikipedia.
> org/wiki/Seneb#Sculpture_of_Seneb_and_his_family[/
> url]
>
> ‘The names of three children are recorded,[13]
> though the third child was not depicted on the
> sculpture - presumably for reasons of symmetry.
> They were named after Seneb's royal masters; his
> son was called Radjedef-Ankh ("May Radjedef
> live"), his eldest daughter was Awib-Khufu ("Happy
> is Khufu") and his younger daughter was
> Smeret-Radjedef ("Companion of Radjedef").[14]
> They are depicted with normal proportions,
> suggesting that they did not inherit their
> father's condition.[9]’
>
> Wiki is correct. You are not.
>
> > There is a Khufu name on a statue, naming a
> girl.
>
> The cartouche name Khufu [i]plus the other
> characters[/i] names the girl. Most ancient
> Egyptian names are just a bunch of hieroglyphs,
> with nothing like a cartouche to delimit them.
> The cartouche here is for the royal name only, not
> the name of the child, which has nothing drawn
> around it to delimit it.
>
> > And you want to invent rules to work around the
> > obvious.
>
> No one is inventing rules to work around anything.
> This is standard, basic, introductory stuff.
>
> > For once you're not taking an inscribed statue
> at
> > face value. The cartouche is there! Whether it's
> a
> > "happy" Khufu or "work crew" Khufu, it is the
> > exact same cartouche.
>
> Yes, Audrey, the cartouche name Khufu [i]plus the
> other characters[/i] gives the name of the work
> crew.
>
> The cartouche name Khufu [i]plus the other
> characters[/i] gives the name of the child:
> Awib-Khufu, “Happy is Khufu”.
>
> There is no face value if you don’t know the
> system. You don’t. You half-know a couple of
> things and you think you know it all.
>
> > Browbeating me won't erase the cartouche or the
> > girl.
>
> Ranting won’t erase the characters with the
> cartouche. Nor will your inability to read them
> or understand what they are there for.
>

My re: Nor will her childish name-calling.

> How you manage not to get this with a chorus of
> people explaining it to you escapes me.
>
> M.

My re: Willful ignorance.