If it was the guy’s tomb, why isn’t his name anywhere? All the other tombs are positively lousy with art. But not this one. The one - graffiti, not official, not sanctioned - name is hidden in the equivalent of a closet and that is in shorthand even?
I don’t know a ton about Khufu, but us it possible that he just didn’t want as much iconography? I know it’s been common for several other cultures (some of Byzantine and Islamic) to not what to have icons or representations of people. Definitely odd, and I’m not sure why almost all of the other pyramids would be tombs and then his wouldn’t be.
I mean, just on the face of it he wanted The Great Pyramid to be his tomb but didn’t want his full name prominently displayed? I guess that’s possible, it just seems unlikely.
Yeah idk it certainly is confusing, I have multiple ideas from him wanting it to be more dedicated to the gods than just him, to the inscriptions not having the time to be finished before he died.
Just seems weird to me that we have a bunch of Tomb pyramids, and then one that isn’t so tomb like but still has a Pharoah inside.
Hopefully this is one of the things we’ll find an answer to.
I don’t know a ton about Khufu, but us it possible that he just didn’t want as much iconography? I know it’s been common for several other cultures (some of Byzantine and Islamic) to not what to have icons or representations of people. Definitely odd, and I’m not sure why almost all of the other pyramids would be tombs and then his wouldn’t be.
I mean, just on the face of it he wanted The Great Pyramid to be his tomb but didn’t want his full name prominently displayed? I guess that’s possible, it just seems unlikely.
Yeah idk it certainly is confusing, I have multiple ideas from him wanting it to be more dedicated to the gods than just him, to the inscriptions not having the time to be finished before he died. Just seems weird to me that we have a bunch of Tomb pyramids, and then one that isn’t so tomb like but still has a Pharoah inside.
Hopefully this is one of the things we’ll find an answer to.