Frieze:OTI::pics,notes:::7/31/21

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Kehker Frieze

Egyptian Frieze

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This is a decorative way of topping walls and depicts bundled reed mats, tied and daubed with mud and paint. It later served as a decorative element used in a frieze at the top of decorated tomb and temple walls.

https://thebanmappingproject.com/glossary/kheker-frieze

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Notes: the top frieze is the Kehker Frieze, the second, the Egyptian Frieze (so called by osirisnet), the third is stars, usually associated with Maat and Hathor?...and usually covering ceilings...and that last one looks like the desert motif...much browsing trying to pin down the Egyptian frieze...it's everywhere on everything...and at one time I read what it represents...it's four colors, red, green/tourquise, yellow, blue, I think might represent the four directions of the compass...all the ancients seem to have assigned colors to the directions...and I think that relates to the colors of the Sons of Horus (for sometime), but I dunno...what draws one in to noting ancient motifs is their mystery...and what I'm finding, that as I learn them, there is less and less mystery!...there's a lot of flattery in them, the motifs and the hieroglyphs...praise and noble epithets...some of the authors say as much...see old book, Manual of Ancient Egypt, at Gutenberg web page...Angels won today, after dropping two close ones to the Athletics...Angels 1-0...Ohtani doubled, drove in the one run...in the three games, he's had like just three hits, and some walks...and that's the same for the whole lineup!...not much doing...put a halo over this one...back to more browsing!

:)

DavidDavid

Osiris:OTI::pics,notes:::7/27/21

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https://osirisnet.net/e_centrale.htm 

Menkhet

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(top two from osirisnet nefertari)

The ceiling of the antechamber, like all of the other ceilings in the tomb, was painted deep blue and spangled with yellow stars, evoking the heavenly sky. At the upper edge of all four walls is a frieze of three different rustic designs, the top one being separated from the two below by a narrow white stripe.

On this north side of the west wall (seen by having turned left on entering), Nefertari is shown making an offering of linen to Ptah. He was the creator god of weaving and crafts.
Nefertari is dressed as on the previous occasions: white transparent dress, tied with a long red sash, and wearing the feather-topped Nekhbet headdress. The linen which she offers is in the shape of the hieroglyph for clothing, "Menkhet" more of them stand on a table in front of her. The text above the table states: "Giving cloth to the Lord of Truth (= Ptah) on the sacred land". Isis and Nephtys were supposed to have woven fine linen cloth for Osiris, which was also considered an important staple for the afterlife, hence its importance in the funerary context. "The manner in which the queen here presents the hieroglyph for clothing rather than a pictorial representation of actual garments is typical of the depiction of the offering presentation of a number of items and underscores the hieroglyphic nature of Egyptian representational forms in this context (Wilkinson) ".

(the thing looking like a vase, and thought a vase...I was under the influence of a youtube vlog...is actually the counterweight with connecting beaded(?) strings-the whole thing is a necklace/pectoral...curious though, and noted by a youtube vlogger, is the Hathors with temple on top is a match for the pillared columns of Dendera temple...Hathor depicted this way lots of places/times-my note)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menat

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Notes: Rockies 12, Angels 3...Ohtani #36-463 feet...oh, been browsing all day!...trying to pin things down...top, the top rustic band is the desert...I know that one!...and, and if that is the desert, the bottom one might be the Nile...though I have those colored bands, which are on everything, as banded papyrus...which is still a fit with the Nile...more on that tomorrowmorrow...this a quick post as midnight approaches!...a self imposed limit to do a post inside a day...anyway...I found an absolutely wonderful site-osirisnet...first two pics with text from there...too much!...and trying to pin down Menkhet, google searched up Menhet...curious, I find that image, the electrical thingy from Dendera, from post day or two back, explained-go figure!...more tomorrowmorrow...

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DavidDavid

Lintels:OTI::pics,notes:::7/26/21

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Lintel 26, Building 23, Yaxchilan

Perseus' Helmet

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https://www.visionaryartexhibition.com/archaic-visions/three-visionary-lintels-of-yaxchilan

In Greek mythology, Perseus (/ˈpɜːrsiəs, -sjuːs/; Greek: Περσεύς) is the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty. He was, alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon, the greatest Greek hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles.^[1] He beheaded the Gorgon Medusa for Polydectes and saved Andromeda from the sea monster Cetus. He was the son of Zeus and the mortal Danaë, as well as the half-brother and great-grandfather of Heracles (as they were both sired by Zeus).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWY0OSOIh7Y&t=617s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn-rW_lFx6E

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Notes: game on...on the radio...Rockies at Angels...top of eighth...Angels 4-2...Ohtani pitched through seven, and stands to win the game, IF the relievers can hang on to it....hmmph...those lintel reliefs tell a strange story...for sometime...for now, I wanted to post that pic of Lady Xook giving the Jaguar helm to King Jaguar Shield...it's a masterpiece...I don't know if I have ever seen that conceit before...oh, must be others, scene of warrior being armed by his lady...brb...Marsh hauls one in at the wall...to bottom of eighth...welp, there's the helmet/cap of invisibility given to Perseus by the Sea Nymphs...how's that story go!?...brb...Angels get back the run...Angels 5-2...and Marsh scores...Angels 6-2....I can't find a painting I like of the Nymphs and Perseus...maybe from a movie...brb...wow...relievers save it...Iglesia strikes out the side in the ninth...Angels 6-2...put a halo over this one!

:)

DavidDavid

Serpent Bar:OTI::pics,notes:::7/25/21

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Mayan Serpent Bar

Hindu/Buddhist Vajra 

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 Mahakala holding vajra weapon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajra

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacaxtla

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The Sema-Tawy is depicted as a power object concealed always below the king’s throne. Why? Is it only the king’s attribute to use such a powerful device? What if this “symbol” is in fact an electric generator? An electro static generator, to be more precise, that works very well in a very dry environment as Egypt. Even if this symbol has the general public meaning of Unity of the two lands, the real utility was as usual hidden in plain sight.

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Even the “knot’ at the center of the device is present, or the water container or the insulator platforms. By the way, the Egyptian hieroglyph for “water jar” ( W14) is suggesting exactly that regarding the centered piece of the Sema Tawi device. 

http://ancientstartech.blogspot.com/2014/11/lord-kelvins-sema-tawy.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBrgCCPUO8A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWyYWqNJ9_Q

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Notes:  Angels 6, Twins 2...welp, they both have claws on their toes, black skin, and holding a  two headed bar...top Hindu/Buddhist, second, Mayan...points of correspondence...a lot of guesses about what they are about...and they are not alone...a lot of other cultures have the same bar...while I've pegged it to sunrise sunset, the solstices, others conclude it has something to do with lightning...and not just that, but the whole mystery of the ancients is wrapped up with electricity...the Egyptian and Mayan vignettes are electrical diagrams...the bar, my thought, does resemble a capacitor...and lightning is a feature of the Earth as capacitor...ionosphere, atmosphere, earth (Condor, Puma, Snake)...lightning strikes are forever keeping this "capacitor" in balance...an on and on in old post...electricity is invisible, no one still quite sure about it...just read a science article with yet another idea...how to approach this...maybe I can find the site that has it...keep losing sites!...found it...sema-tawy...that's the motif of lotus and papyrus plants intertwining, said to represent the union of Upper and Lower Egypt...I was going to get to that, as it often appears on the HWT-box throne in the small square...in that pic it is over the whole side...I thought to make of it a representation of veins and arteries, and heart in the middle...another reach, it is like the nervous system...and here I'm taken aback, as the nervous system is electrical, and there the author is going on how the sema-tawy is an electrical diagram....I dunno...the two youtubes may be spot on!...more "electric diagram"...that big jar shows up in Sumer too...along with the vajara, and a whole bunch of other correspondences....tough to look at the motifs/vignettes now and NOT think of them as diagrams!...Ohtani got his 35th home run too...put a halo over that one!...

:)

DavidDavid

Hut:OTI::pics,notes:::7/24/21

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Mayan Homes

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Many Maya houses, both ancient and modern, have a basic rectangular shape, but with rounded ends.  These also can be constructed with the help of a cord.  First find the midpoint of one of the sides to be rounded by using the cord, and then stretch the cord from the midpoint to an opposite corner and swing the cord to the other corner.  Then repeat the process on the other side of the rectangle.

https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/maya-geometry-in-the-classroom-special-ratios-in-maya-architecture

 

https://www.bookofthrees.com/mayan-culture-the-hearth-stones-of-creation/

Reference: The Three Stones of Maya Creation Mythology at Quiriguá by Matthew G. Looper, Wired Humanities Projects, University of Oregon Virtual Mesoamerican Archive.

https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/ask-experts/why-always-three-hearth-stones

Early research showed that stelae A and C at Quiriguá are twins; this is quite clear, as they are virtually identical (see figures W0968T and W0960T). However, when Mayan glyphic writing started to be deciphered, it became evident that they were central to a Maya creation myth. The lengthy text on the side of Stela C describes that time began with the “planting” of three stones. On the other side, it gives the date of this event as 13.0.0.0.0, which equates to 3114BC.

 

https://uncoveredhistory.com/guatemala/quirigua/the-maya-creation-stones-of-quirigua/

Mayan double-headed serpent bar with profiles of dieties emerging from each mouth. The serpent`s body represents the ecliptic, the heads are sunset and sunrise with the dieties as the setting and rising sun emerging. The 2 "X"s are the equinoxes.Drawing by Linda Schele.

http://plumedconch.blogspot.com/2011/11/mayan-royal-double-headed-serpent-bar.html

The curved element is analogous to the jaws of the earth, and the two vertical shapes may represent raindrops at the Three-Stone-Place, 

https://collections.dma.org/artwork/5199633

(paywall)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25766986

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushnu

These hearth stones are carried on the back of the Turtle constellation of Orion, Ak’Ek (turtle star): see picture below from the Madrid codex, with the turtle hanging from the sky band and the triangle of the 3 stones or cauac glyph on its back. This triangle is the area of Orion’s M42 nebula.

https://mayancalendar.net/the-three-maya-hearth-stones/#.YP0CAuhKhPY 

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Notes:  Angels 2, Twins 1...Sandoval pitched no hit ball for eight and one third innings!...so close...I did search: Pythagorean ratio Mayan, and, and that site came up...apparently, Mayan homes were all alike-tract huts...and I went looking for the three hearth stones too...every home had the three stones over the hearth, and the site above surmises they represent three stars in the constellation Orion, but not the stars of Orion's belt, rather three that form a triangle...about here one wishes the pre-Colombian history of the indigenous Americans was in the hands of the indigenous Americans....this lament voiced sometimes too about the history of ancient Egypt...I dunno...site doesn't cite...on the fly here, ("scattered" as Nick on the Rocks says-see youtube) exploring some other sites, and brought up short!...I just saw that ceremonial serpent bar with the two crossed bands, and it was distinctly said it represents the ecliptic/path of sun, sunset sunrise...I collect things on my android phone which is problematic...site was The Plumed...Conch!...neat name...brb...found it....the crossed band on the three hearth stones...I post the Olmec tablet again, with a bit of its caption from yesterday...the "curved element" is the frets of a fret  step   fret motif...I surmise!...'surmise' a new word already outworn...hmmph...and, and all this goes side by side with the Andeans'/Incas' "usno" and their three sacred ancestor stones...the "usnos" are small stepped pyramids, at least one with a double throne on top (something to add to my throne lore!) for the Inca King and his Queen...it was at just such an usno/ushno that the Inca ceremoniously first met with Pizzaro, presenting the ancestor stones, or some such...some back forth insults about the "sacredness" of the stones, and contrariwise, the Bible, resulted in the dust up that brought down the incas...so legendary lore has it...I've gone on about this in posts way back, but since, there seems to be more lore on the web about the Mesoamerican and the Andeans three stones...more lore than I found before anyway!...that connect: crossed bands to Mayan hearth stones, crossed bands to Serpent bar, all to Orion/Stars?, is something!...I dunno...there are some really wild looking serpent bars...for tomorrowmorrow...oh, the fuzzy turtle second pic down has everything...ceremonial bar/skyband, hearth stones, crossed bands, and the turtle a stand in for the step mountain...put a halo over the Angel win....

:)

DavidDavid 

FretStepFret:OTI::pics,notes:::7/23/21

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Fret   Step   Fret

Ceremonial Bar

Crossed Bands

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https://smarthistory.org/staff-god-chavin/

Many theories for the skill of Tiwanaku's architectural construction have been proposed. One is that they used a luk’ a, which is a standard measurement of about sixty centimeters. Another argument is for the Pythagorean Ratio. This idea calls for right triangles at a ratio of five to four to three used in the gateways to measure all parts. Lastly, Protzen and Nair argue that Tiwanaku had a system set for individual elements dependent on context and composition. This is shown in the construction of similar gateways ranging from diminutive to monumental size, proving that scaling factors did not affect proportion. With each added element, the individual pieces were shifted to fit together.^[22]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiwanaku

http://www.atlantisbolivia.org/sungatewall.html

https://www.academia.edu/8793904/Generative_Landscapes_The_Step_Mountain_Motif_in_Tiwanaku_Iconography

The cosmic diagram has six parts. On the top is a "crossed bands" motif in a square, surrounded by thirteen nubs. The crossed bands are associated with sky or center (or sky-center) in most symbol systems of Mesoamerica. Thirteen reinforces the notion of sky, since there are thought to be multiple levels of the heavens in most Mesoamerican cultures. Below the "crossed bands" is a three-branched object with vegetation on the ends of the branches. This is most likely a representation of the World Tree (Cosmic Tree) that unites the levels of the cosmos. Flanking the World Tree are four ovals, which probably symbolize maize kernels or the four directions and their associated colors. Below the World Tree is a stepped motif that likely represents a mountain, pyramid-temple, or ancestor symbols. The curved element is analogous to the jaws of the earth, and the two vertical shapes may represent raindrops at the Three-Stone-Place, the center of the night sky. The three dots at the bottom of the composition are the most enigmatic part of the composition, and may refer to the number three symbolically. Ultimately, this plaque records the story of creation: it shows the World Tree sprouting out of Creation Mountain. The tree represents the renewed sky; the mountain represents the renewed earth; and the Three-Stone-Place represents the hearth, the place of First Father's rebirth as Maize.

https://collections.dma.org/artwork/5199633

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1pbhrpaobg

https://mayadecipherment.com/2009/09/16/unusual-signs-2-the-fringed-crossed-bands-logogram/

https://jennysmexico.blogspot.com/2012/10/tlaxcala-state-magnificent-mural.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacaxtla

Notes:  game on...on the radio...Angels at Twins...bottom of first...Angels 3-0...woop...Marsh makes a catch, and the inning over, leaving bases loaded...Ohtani with a day off...so,  soh, my on and on about the Egyptian HWT-Box Throne, still on going!, came about from wondering about the step  fret  step...I sorta see it under the  feet of the Staff God on the Gate of the Sun at Tiwanaku...thought to start off this post with pic of that, but wait, here's another...see above first...Angels 4-0...bottom of fourth...the second has the same belt!...the first is Chavin...the second Tiwanaku...now, hold on to your hat!...Twins get a run...Angels 4-1...the tablet is Olmec!...I found it looking for the crossed bands motif...and I was looking for that from making a comment about this "symbol" to a youtube vlog...did, and took it back...wouldn't let me edit...I had linked a site...which I've lost(found:the logogram-crossed band and the twisted chord!)...an on and on about the crossed bands...there's a bunch!...the pic is not the iconic crossed bands...it looks more like the twisted flax Egyptian hieroglyph!...anyway, what set me off, was the frets on either side...I see side by side frets, I think step in the middle...so the crossed bands conflated with the step, and the step with cave, and the cave with the Witz monster!...all those above are THAT!...lol....I dunno...it gets worse...the belts in first and second look to conflate/merge with the Mayan ceremonial bar...the youtube vlog set me off on that too!...top of fifth...those mural pics are too much!...the last one has the bar too, and the crossed bands like twisted flax!...top of sixth, Angels 4-2...I'm out on the porch being eaten alive by mosquitoes...it was great fun, these stepping stones...and I thought to make a page for each...fret   step   fret, ceremonial bar, and crossed bands...the cover page for Scott's paper has the usual step fret for a border, and the chacana as a logo...he goes on about the step...but not the step fret...and, and, my Pythagoreans in the Americas finds confirmation in that wiki quote about Tiwanaku...go figure...too much...bbk with game report...all these motifs for more sometime...oh, some are mystified by the three dots...those are the three sacred stones of the Inca, and Mesoamericans...the entire creature in the first, a ceremonial bar?...and the bar harks to the papyrus bundle/fasces...see previous post...I found one bar said to be bundled spears...Feline Man...too much...bk...Twins 5-4...Rockies 9-6...for both the Angels and Dodgers, game slipped away in the late innings...

:)

DavidDavid

  

Papyrus:OTI::pics,notes:::7/21/21

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Eye of Horus

Papyrus Bundles

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wiki

met

met

met

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Notes: there is software now that recognizes images...one sees it being used in the adventure movies...so, soh, it must work like a search engine does with words, which in its turn, works like a dictionary...it's said, the ancient Egyptian had copy books...in these books were all the rules, and images they could use, for their paintings...the archaeologists have yet to find such, and it is a surmise there were such...and for certain there were such, as the artisans stayed true to the canon for like four thousand years!...the first pic is from the tomb of the artisan Pashedu, and it is of much interest to me...in 1973 about, I finally took a college level painting class, and one assignment was to make our own canvases, and they were to be four feet by four feet...big!...so, soh, from Nat Geo I found a photo of a moth, and, and that Egyptian vignette with the Hawk missing an eye...at the time, I thought the Egyptians got as far as comic book art, and were stuck...(nowabout, comics are the thing!)...comic as in childlike, primitive...welp, that notion has come and went...just how did the artisans managed to pass things on, and stay true to the canon, a sophistication unheard of today?...anyway, I looked at the Hawk, and thought, 'I'll put its eye back'...little did I know!...a major feature of the major Egyptian myth is Set poking out Horus' eye...the Hawk is of course, Horus...maybe I can find my painting...I posted it before...the moth too...brb...from storage in the garage, it's become damaged...which is kinda cool...it's still in there, and Horus likely to lose his eye again, the inroads of Set being such...awhile back I learned that wavy speckled background to Horus represents the desert-Set's home...so a meaning laden juxtaposition...the artisans are always doing that!...making side by sides!...so, soh, last few posts I've been going on about the Pharaoh's throne, and searching for what is under it, above it, beside it...under it is often a bundle of reeds...that search, "bundle of reeds" didn't work as well as "bundle of Papyrus"...curious about the Roman fasces, the famous bundle of rods with an ax head, I searched that up a few days back...tracked it back to the Etruscans...one Etruscan precursor example of a bundle of rods with a double ax sticking out on top, a tiny bronze artifact...oh, my thought, that's the Mycenean double ax!...did they have a bundle of rods too?...no luck with that...but still a look about...but I knew the Egyptians have the bundle of reeds, all over the place, notably under the throne. and under the throne too a representation of river/lake/water...a rectangular box, with one end sloped/angled, decorated with waves...sometimes the bundle and the wave box are both under the throne...this goes side by side with the papyrus boats on the Nile with the kiosk canopy, under which the usual offering vignette...offering being made to Pharaoh or a god/goddess....a side be side of the bundle with a papyrus boat notes the wrappings...the bundle has wrapping/rope binding, at each end, and in the middle...the rope binding holds the reeds together, and too, it's said, traps air in them by being tight...I dunno...Papyrus was so important to the Egyptians!...they used it for everything...apparently, they bred from one species a giant version, which has since disappeared with the disappearance of the ancient uses...I've gone on about reeds...side by side with Tigris/Euphrates, Lake Titicaca/Peru coast...boats, homes, kiosks...so anyway, in the pic of Nefertiti playing Senet is the bundle under her chair, and under her chair the HWT-Block throne!?...the artisans weren't slaves to the canon...they would riff on it, but subtly...I just read, that often the throne box is decorated with the feathers motif...and in the Hawk pic there that is, side by side...the stylization of Horus' plumage is canon...always those looks...the cups, the longer lines, short lines, the zig zags...I took note of this over the years when seeing Egypt Horus paintings...and now, see it in the thrones!...how the artisans kept integrating motifs, I dunno...they are all of the "same mind" figuratively, maybe literally!...Nefertiti is holding the motif in that wand in her hand...above it, tiny, is the hieroglyph derived from bundles...the kiosk is made from reeds...the offering table is a bundle in the stelae pic...several days of browsing now, I've yet to find a name for the bundle...or an on and on...ALL these motifs have had an on and on, treatments, by someone sometime...but I haven't found a "dictionary" of motifs...dictionaries are difficult to make, and are the result of collaborations...kinda like wikipedia, or any encyclopedia...but without lending themselves to searches the way written words can, (their letter order like an ulr), motifs/images are very hard to find/parse!...that, and there is a lot of disagreement about what they are/mean once focused on...a lot of motifs just don't get close studied!...hmmph...Angels lost today, Athletics 6-0, and yesterday too, Athletics 4-1...and the Dodgers may have dropped two to the Giants...brb...oh!...Dodgers 8-6...they came back tonight...

:)

DavidDavid

 

HWT-Box:OTI::pics,notes:::7/18/2021

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Egyptian Throne

HWT-Box Throne

Serekh

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On the center part of the macehead, behind the throne with the seated king, there is a figure just like the supposed sandal-bearer from the Narmer palette, likewise with the rosette sign above its head. He is followed by a man carrying a long pole. Above him three men are walking, two of them also carrying long poles. The serekh displaying the signs for Narmer can be seen above these men.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narmer_Macehead

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Notes:  Mariners 6-4 today...I've gone on about the Narmer Mace before, comparing it to a ritual Moche scene...brb...bk...

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https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319-51726-1_2577-1

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I went on about the kiosk of the Moche being like the kiosk of the Egyptians...revisiting I see the Moche under the kiosk is on a throne too...for sometime...the block throne of the Egyptians, reserved it seems for gods and Pharaohs, is what I'm on about, and it looks to resemble the "serekh"...

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Hieroglyphic symbol comprising the recessed paneling described in modern times as “palace facade” decoration. It is the image of a brick facade to a palace or enclosure, with a rectangular space above. It is believed to have been modeled on the design of the earliest royal residences beginning in the Early Dynastic Period. It is found on mastaba tombs, false door stelae, coffins, sarcophagi, and numerous other funerary and ceremonial contexts throughout Egyptian history. A falcon (the sign for Horus) perches on the top horizontal of the rectangle, which encloses a king’s Horus name (the first name in a king’s titulary).

EDA, Encyclopedia Dictionary of Archaeology-see link above...site has search

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that's the first time a search brought up EDA...curious what I can find using their search!...welp, put in "egyptian throne" and that turned up like three thousand log lines, most connected to papers behind pay wall...there was another site I found looking for the thrones...factsanddetails.com...brb...hmmph...a throne search took me to that site a few days back, and I've lost the search words I used...it's a good site!...it culls from 19th and 18th, and ancient literature/history/archaeology, and contemporary...there's a lot to cull from!...oh...a google image search found this:

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The bark’s most basic function was to transport gods and mummies. When transporting gods, the bark was fitted with a gold-plated naos containing a divine image seated on a hwt-block throne,17 which was veiled with a thin canopy of wood or cloth (Fig. 17.4).18

17 On the h ˙ wt-block throne, srh˘ -block throne, and the “lion-throne,” see Kuhlmann (2008). For a comparative work on thrones, see Metzger (1985).

https://faculty.washington.edu/snoegel/PDFs/articles/noegel-ark-2015.pdf

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article is going on about a side by side with the Egyptian shrine and the ark of the covenant...too much!...have I found the name of the block throne?...hwt...brb...bk

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 Klaus P. Kuhlmann of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo wrote: “Basically, Egyptian thrones came in two shapes, which seem to have coexisted since early Old Kingdom times. A square block incorporating a short backrest represented a simple “traditional” type (earliest example under Khufu). It remains unclear whether this type of seat evolved from (a flight of three brick-made) stairs as early sign shapes seem to suggest or from a bundle of reeds. In general, the block-throne has a Hwt-like design ) on its sides. This is the typical throne of gods, who “preside” over a temple (Hwt-nTr), and it is mainly—but not exclusively—in a religious context that also pharaoh is shown on such a (“sacred”) block-throne. 

https://factsanddetails.com/world/cat56/sub404/entry-6142.html

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and, and success!..by the roundabout way, I arrive at what I had read at factanddetails...see page!...very cool, and I'm worn out...more tomorrowmorrow, that "bundle of reeds"...time to feed Maya, my dog...

:)

DavidDavid