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OCaptain wrote:
>Would you agree with this statement? That softer stones like
>limestone would yield more quickly and harder stones would
>yield more slowly?
Certainly would be consistent with the claimed 40,000 stone vessels at the Step pyramid since the majority are made of travertine (limestone) followed by metasiltstone and limestone breccia...... the rest made of other rocks in which Aswan granite is down the list just ahead of dolomite, marble, serpentine, aragonite, and quartz (Lauer 1976), and the vast majority of those are small jars and such (El-Khouli (1978).
El-Khouli, A. (1978) Egyptian stone vessels. Predynastic period to dynasty III: typology and analysis. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, v1-3.
Lauer, J-P. (1976) Saqqara: the royal cemetery of Memphis: excavations and discoveries since 1850. Thames and Hudson, London, 248 p.
Archae Solenhofen (solenhofen@hotmail.com)
>Would you agree with this statement? That softer stones like
>limestone would yield more quickly and harder stones would
>yield more slowly?
Certainly would be consistent with the claimed 40,000 stone vessels at the Step pyramid since the majority are made of travertine (limestone) followed by metasiltstone and limestone breccia...... the rest made of other rocks in which Aswan granite is down the list just ahead of dolomite, marble, serpentine, aragonite, and quartz (Lauer 1976), and the vast majority of those are small jars and such (El-Khouli (1978).
El-Khouli, A. (1978) Egyptian stone vessels. Predynastic period to dynasty III: typology and analysis. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, v1-3.
Lauer, J-P. (1976) Saqqara: the royal cemetery of Memphis: excavations and discoveries since 1850. Thames and Hudson, London, 248 p.
Archae Solenhofen (solenhofen@hotmail.com)
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