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Originally posted by torbjon
The image posted by Nygdan is a relief from the palace of Ashur-nasir-pal II at Nimrud (northwest palace)
I believe that that particular panel is on exhibit in the Slater Cast Collection of the British Museum:
www.norwichfreeacademy.com...
Other ‘out of context’ panels from the British Museum:
www.msm.cam.ac.uk...
(University of Dublin)
www.tcd.ie...
(The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
www.metmuseum.org...[38EEFC02-0906-4F2A-BB68-116D6EC25E9D]
(Los Angeles City Museum of Art)
www.lacma.org...
Has anyone noticed the lines of cuneiform carved over this panel? Looking at other panels from this palace you can see more lines of cuneiform carved over them as well. Somebody came along after the original relief was created and carved some text on top of it, further evidence to support Byrds palimpsest theory for the Abydos carvings. The ancients were carve happy. They carved on and over Everything…
Except the Great Pyramid… odd that.
Originally posted by Byrd
I'm sure there were other things that weren't carved on. And we don't have the outer skin of the pyramid (I believe it was limestone facing), where they could have carved all sorts of stuff. That would be interesting if, say, they had carved a huge relief of the Pharoah on the outside of the pyramid (no, there's no evidence that they did this.)
Originally posted by Byrd
You can see the overcarving all over the pampliset if you just know how to read hieroglyphics. I do (rather badly, I should add.)
Here's the semi-original (photoshopped) version:
Now, just look at what was done to the names:
Here's that darling son, Ramses, whose Praenomen is Setepenre Usermaatre
And here's dear old dad (Seti) - Menmaatre to his buddies -- the one whose temple his darling little boy was appropriating for his own glory:
And because my tracing is SO bad, here's what the two cartouches really look like (both nomen and praenomen):
Seti's full name (nomen and praenomen) is Menmaatre Sety-meryenptah and Ramses has a big mouthfull of a nomen and praenomen with Usermaatre-setepenre Ramesse-meryamun
Ramses the Modest's name can be loosely translated as "Powerful in Truth, Chosen of Ra" (and that was his first name) "Ramses - Beloved of Amun" (second name)
Anyway, that's why to Egyptology buffs like myself (and to archaeologists and so forth) that we know it's an overinscribed panel and that part of the old is showing through. And how we know what the rest of the title says.
I hope it's okay if I don't tie up our bandwidth with the rest of the exercise, which was done at that link above. But if you look at the original and look at the many other times this title was repeated (we have other examples), you can very clearly see the overcarving.
Oh yes, and the bee and plant next to the cartouches mean "king of upper and lower Egypt."
[edit on 26-9-2005 by Byrd]
[edit on 26-9-2005 by Byrd]
Originally posted by serin sister
these quote to meen seem as though they need to be sung, like mantras why am i thinking the sound or frequency created from this is very very powerful