Acquire Zeitschrift Der Deutschen Morgenl�ndischen Gesellschaft, 1884, Vol. 38 (Classic Reprint) Edited By E Windisch Manuscript

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E. Beyer when writing his article in zdmg, XXXVIII.seems not yet to have seen Petrie's important book on the 'pyra mids and Temples of Gizeh londonwhere it is proved that the builders of the Great Pyramid used saws of bronze set with cutting jewels far harder than quartz probably rough un crystallized corundum.
The proof rests on a close examination of sawgrooves, where there are scratches that could not be pro duced by mere rubbing with a hard powder.
And that the saws were of bronze is known 'from the green staining on the sides of the saw cuts and on grains of sand left in a saw cut.
A great many points of detail about the tools used in the Fourth Dynasty are worked out by Petrie in chap, XIX.

As to the use of iron Petrie writes p, 'that sheet iron was employed we know from the fragment found by Howard Vyse in the masonry of the south air channel and though some doubt has been thrown on the piece, merely from its rarity, yet the vouchers for it are very precise and is has the east of a nummu lite

on the rust of it, proving it to have been buried for ages beside a block of nummulite limestone, and therefore to be certainly ancient.
No reasonable doubt can therefore exist about its being really a genuine piece used by the Pyramid masons and probably such pieces were required to prevent crowbars eating into the stones, and to esse the action of the rollers.


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