Since this is an important topic, I will donate a few more photos which can be used as evidence.

This is the Layer Pyramid of Zawyet El-Aryan located in a part of Cairo not usually visited by tourists.

We are fortunate to be able to see a pyramid core made of mostly cuboidal stones as it radiates out into layers made of elongated stone and mud bricks clearly showing that different methods were used to build different parts of the pyramid in this era as the Opening Post proposes. This likely dates to the Third Dynasty (or perhaps late Second?).

The Pyramid as seen from the northeast. On the right you can see a breach. That's where the core is visible
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This is the east side which gives a general impression of the average shape of blocks and bricks used to build the accretion layers.
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Here, you can see how one accretion leans against the next without integration.
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Here, inside the breach, you can see the exposed core of more cuboidal shaped blocks of rough-cut stone. You can get a good feel here how the accretions radiate inward to meet at the core. The core design was not precision work as the next photo shows, but it probably didn't need to be for what it was made to do, a counter-pressure backstop.
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In this photo, you can see how the core discretely transitions to the first accretion layer made from stone. The block type changes abruptly.
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The stone accretion
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One way to put this all together is that the accretions were the ramps. The blocks used in this pyramid were not large however. Perhaps, construction ramps which may have also supported crane like contraptions.

Finally, the Old Kingdom Pyramid Texts do in fact mention the word "ramp" in its verbal form and I have posted this before. The same word is mentioned in pAnastasi, which I also posted in the past. In Hieroglyphic the word is st3w and in fact in the example from PT 390, you can get a feel for what that word meant to an ancient Egyptian...it was a noun related to the verb "drag", sth3. Such a noun in English might be construed to say "dragart" for example, like the word "rampart". In this line, the verb form used is the stative which in the context of the spell here is a command for Seth to be face down on the ground and "be dragged" like a snake. This is the context which well establishes that ramps were in fact used to drag things on them. This is crucial textual evidence needed in this debate and so I post this here again.





Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 05-Apr-20 20:12 by Manu.