Steve Clayton Wrote:
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> > ‘(house of) the great saw.’””
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> Like this :)
>
> I am only half kidding. Those are flat copper
> blades,  tipped with hard Carborundum stones,
> and/or some other gemstones, harder than the
> material they are cutting.
>  
> I made this to illustrate,  it does not require a
> circular flat blade,  like that found on a modern
> day table saw. Now if we can only build a house
> around it...
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I don't know. I picture a very highly efficient means since water was so precious. I picture a pendulum type saw powered by water.

There are several possibilities and i have very few clues other than that they were powered by "set' (spent water) and that the machines sat with their bases at 0' ("the horizon" or what we call "the pavement").