Merrell Wrote:
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> Thanks for this, Dr. T.
>
> The Lauer reference in n. 20 appears
> here (134, n. 1), although he just makes the (by
> now well known) point that the date wasn't to be
> found in Perring or Lepsius.

In Lauer’s note: “Petrie l’aura-t-il relevée lui même sur place, mais sans la publier?”

This is profoundly unlikely. In The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh (1883) we find this:

“In the second chamber . . . There is a large cartouche of Khnumu–Khufu, nearly all broken away by Vyse’s forced entrance; but this and other hieroglyphs need not be noticed here, as they have been already published, while the details of the masons’ marks and lines of measurement have been neglected.”

His attitude to the inscriptions on his first investigation of the pyramid was that they had already been “done”; there is no sign of his having changed his mind on the point and he only ever cites Lepsius, Denkmaeler regarding them.

M.