Post by Don Barone on Jun 27, 2020 18:39:36 GMT -5
Hi all I have brought this up before only to be told by The Orthodox that what I think I am seeing is not there. Here is what I see.
In any outdoor carving the carving is always an insey, that is the art work, be it a cartouche or whatever is supposedly chiselled into the rock face. But is this actually what happened ?
I noticed this before and broached it at Ma'at that when any of this artwork began to crumble ... ONLY THE EXTERIOR seems to break off. It never appears to go more than about 4 to 6 inches deep and there is always a perfectly smooth section that is left.
To me it appears that once the wall or the colonade has been readied then a coating of wet something is applied to the column and then rather than actually carving the rock, a stencil is used to impress the image into the wet whatever. There are several reasons I believe this. First is the apparent exactness of both the carvings and the colonades themselves. They are two perfect and they all match too perfectly.
I first started thinking about this when I saw some carvings at The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto Canada and the carving of a bee was too perfect and then noticed they all appeared to be exactly the same.
If the carving is inside it is an outsy and it is in relief with the subject sticking out of wall. But again whenever it chips it is always just a few inches and underneath is totally smooth.
The one example I will post is from Karnak. Each pillar looks EXACTLY THE SAME with the angle of taper seemingly perfect and likewise each column has the same images and they appear to be exact. I don't care how good they were they could not by freehand have done all these images to match. And lastly look at the chipping off, smooth as glass underneath and always just a few inches deep.
This image really shows what I mean
There are many examples of this.
So I conclude that The Ancient Builders could and did use some sort of cement
In any outdoor carving the carving is always an insey, that is the art work, be it a cartouche or whatever is supposedly chiselled into the rock face. But is this actually what happened ?
I noticed this before and broached it at Ma'at that when any of this artwork began to crumble ... ONLY THE EXTERIOR seems to break off. It never appears to go more than about 4 to 6 inches deep and there is always a perfectly smooth section that is left.
To me it appears that once the wall or the colonade has been readied then a coating of wet something is applied to the column and then rather than actually carving the rock, a stencil is used to impress the image into the wet whatever. There are several reasons I believe this. First is the apparent exactness of both the carvings and the colonades themselves. They are two perfect and they all match too perfectly.
I first started thinking about this when I saw some carvings at The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto Canada and the carving of a bee was too perfect and then noticed they all appeared to be exactly the same.
If the carving is inside it is an outsy and it is in relief with the subject sticking out of wall. But again whenever it chips it is always just a few inches and underneath is totally smooth.
The one example I will post is from Karnak. Each pillar looks EXACTLY THE SAME with the angle of taper seemingly perfect and likewise each column has the same images and they appear to be exact. I don't care how good they were they could not by freehand have done all these images to match. And lastly look at the chipping off, smooth as glass underneath and always just a few inches deep.
This image really shows what I mean
There are many examples of this.
So I conclude that The Ancient Builders could and did use some sort of cement