Stepped Fret
Notes: All this time I've been using search term: step fret...this afternoon, after noting in yesterday's quotes the authors used 'stepped fret', I used 'stepped fret'...and...and...it brought up new things...and some things about old things I hadn't seen...things being the many authors' on and ons...motif hunting isn't all in one place...wait...it's like this...it's like detective work...something enigmatic shows up...a wonder...and evidence gets gathered...after awhile it becomes apparent that there is a pattern, or patterns to the evidence, and, well, this is about as far as the professional scholars go...it is shaky ground to say what the patterns mean...or if even the patterns are real patterns...evidently, there are polygonal walls in the Old and New Worlds...and evidently, there are polygonal walls with knobs in the Old and New...and evidently, there are polygonal walls with knobs and cups in the Old and New...and evidently there are polygonal wall with knobs and cups and joinery so fine one can't put paper between the stone joints in the Old and New...to be more specific, two places such with all these motifs occur are Egypt and Peru...now, a tourist guide is without limit in his discussions of such with his group...guides have ideas about it all, and the tourists too, so there is all kind of speculations among this non-professional lot...this morning I watched Brien Foerster's clip...by himself, he is walking about the Giza plateau...his tour group is inside one of the pyramids...so he uses the opportunity with his selfie camera to show things, mostly close ups of the base of the second pyramid...it's amateur filming, and it's great...on a windy day, there's no one around, and one gets a different sense of the place...in the comment section, this is noted...anyway, he happens on one of his group who is an engineer, and they both have just come from touring Peru, and talk a bit about the stonework...Brien notes that while the stonework is similar, the Egyptians are more regular in placing their stones than the Andeans, a different culture...but, it's evident, in Egyptian stone work there are polygonal stones like in Peru, even down to one tiny one at the Serepaum like the tiny one in Peru, which I have heard captioned as a modern repair...incidentally, I've seen one of these tiny ones in Greek polygonal stone work!...go figure!...anyway, the audience for these Mystereon clips has become so knowledgeable, that a guide can just point at motifs, and say, 'cups, knobs, tight joints, vitrification, aggregate, flaking, no hieroglyphs-hieroglyphs, circular saw, drill hole speed, echo sounds, etc.'. and the gathered will bob their heads in recognition...tomorrow, Brien is going to the Serepaum...this is where there are 25 giant stone boxes...'liquid polish drips'...most of them of black stone...this morning I revisited the Alexandrian black sarcophagus found last year, and noted the lid...it's just like the lids in the Serepaum, and the sarcophagus looks like one of Serepaum's, though smaller...now, yesterday, I watched Brien's clip from the Egyptian museum in Cairo...his tour is going all over Egypt, and routinely he separates by himself to do a youtube streaming clip...in this one he is outside the Museum walking around...there are a lot of relics exhibited outside, and somewhat shabbily...Egypt is poor, as is Peru...anyway, there are more black sarcophagi...and Brien points them out as being pre-dynastic...one of his suppositions is that pre-dynastic stone work hasn't hieroglyphs...most of the Serepaum boxes are just so, and that Alexandrian box is like that...just plain black stone...and the ones outside the museum are like that too!..so, he is on to something...to add to the boxes mystery are their faceted lids...usually a long flat rectangular top, with on either side sloping rectangles...I noted this 'look' looking at an Etruscan tomb...the ceiling has this same design...go figure...brb...I'll get Brien's link...
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Pyramid of Khafre
Giza Now
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