Re: "garlic stone" and pyramids made of reconstituted stones.

Archae Solenhofen <solenhofen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


No, it's not a header, it's part of a list for the materials found in
a "massif in the eastern region". Just like the other lists of rocks,
minerals, and ores for different areas. Seems to be a lot of location
"headers" and lists for different materials for different area that
contain lots of different other things, including gods, flowers and
eye makeup...

Call it whatever you want but there are not specific names in this part
of the text. That's why I call it a header, or a general description.

The detailed names of the products are given in well identified lists
for the gods (column 14) and minerals (column 15-16-17). In these lists,
the name of for sandstone and limestone are nowhere to be found.


I simply meant there is no way to have an idea about the kind of statue
the stele is talking about.

"all statues that stand in temples and in sanctuaries" is very
specific i.e. all statues. Not all the statues are made of material
that can be asserted are made of geopolymer aggregates, like limestone
and sandstone, since many are holocrystalline igneous and metamorphic
rocks, like granite, granodiorite, diorite gneiss etc.. The statement
you provided is not specifically talking about geopolymers, find
another if you want to assert that the famine stele is actually
discussing such

My only assertion is that the products in Herodotus are probably not
food but minerals. This is because egyptians knew minerals they called
onion stones, garlic stones, radish stones as showed in the famine
stele. The use of these minerals could be explained by the geopolymer
theory. Moreover, it is surprising that sandstone and limestone are not
in the list since it was used to build the temple/pyramid.

I said nothing else. You completely invented the rest. That's just one
more strawman.

Now a simple explanation would be that sandstone, limestone or granit
are not in the list because they are everywhere. No need to look hard to
find it.

--
Florian

"Tout est au mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles"
Voltaire vs Leibniz
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