Origyptian Wrote:
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> Warwick Wrote:
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> >
> > my 2 cents worth...
> >
> > We are not looking at a relief panel or stele
> or
> > some such. we are looking at quarryman bar code
> marks.
> >
> > As we can see, no two crews seem to have made
> them the same.
> >
> > Occam's Razor at work.
> >
> > Warwick
>
>
> Thanks Warwick. I don't see a pattern either,
> other than the north vs south "gang names". I was
> only asking if anyone else could explain the
> different variations (gang name with vs. without
> an associated cartouche and vice versa) as
> possibly having a more systematic formulation with
> each conveying its own specific meaning.

The only systematic interrelation would be in reference to where the block was from, where it was going, who made and or who moved it.

IMHO of course



warwick