Scott Creighton wrote:

> Hi Phil,
>
> Here's the problem I have with Roth's paper.
>
> In the footnotes to p.126 of her paper she writes this:
>
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>
> (Note: The 'northern name' Roth refers to is the 'Powerful
> White Crown' crew name--see below). The left hand sign (above)
> is the AE chisel hieroglyph (U23 in Gardiner's sign list). Roth
> is saying here that she thinks that this sign in the powerful
> white crown crew name is a badly rendered chisel sign (U23)
> i.e. it has the top part of the handle lobbed off. See image
> below:
>
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>
> The crew name (top line in above image) is the Powerful White
> Crown crew name and is always accompanied by the Khnum-Khuf
> cartouche and is repeated like the above around EIGHT TIMES in
> the various relieving chambers.
>
> Now, ask yourslef the question--how is it possible that an AE
> scribe could render his crew name wrong (i.e. badly draw the
> chisel glyph) EIGHT TIMES on eight different blocks? Roth tells
> us she believes the tall sign (the right -hand one in above
> image) is a badly rfendered chisel so why would it be badly
> rendered in the same way EIGHT TIMES in the Great Pyramid
> reliving chambers by an AE scribe that would know how to
> proeprly render the chiself glyph?
>
> Or, is it possible, that perhaps someone much later, someone
> who was largely unfamiliar with AE script believed this text
> had been properly written by the AEs and simply had it copied,
> fault and all, eight times into the chambers? Is this not a
> more logical way of explaining an error being replicated eight
> times in these chambers? Does this then mean that every single
> instance of Khnum-Khuf (which pairs with this crew name) has
> been faked?

Furthermore, on that same pg 126, isn't the glyph preceding the chick on Campbell's south wall also considered the chisel? How can that chisel (which closely resembles glyph U23C per Jsesh) be so different than the ones on the north wall (which do not closely resemble Gardiner's)?