Aswan tremendous Unfinished obelisk and a
rare hieroglyphic text carved in the northern granite quarry. A
Always Aswan city was the main granite source for ancient Egyptians where they quarried the best quality of it. Due to this fact, 95 percent of the Egyptian obelisks came from Aswan quarries. Visitors of Aswan monuments always astonished of seeing such a gigantic obelisk in northern quarries. The obelisk rough estimation of it’s weight exceeds 1100 ton and it dates back to the new kingdom of ancient Egypt ”1400-1200 B.C” Egyptologists believe that cause for getting the obelisk left unfinished was having a flaw appeared in it’s monolithic body and led to obvious three cracks and due to that the work on it was abandoned. We only can imagine the amount of frustration the builders had felt once it happened especially it’s work was complete to 90 percent. It seems that the ancient labours had used cylindered wedges as well as pointy ones to cut the borders for the obelisk, the number of discovered wedges were often in sycamore. Knowing which wedge-log can fit for each stage of cutting the obelisk borders is so essential as the using
of the wrong sized –wedge may result a sever damage to the obelisk body. Either misjudging from the ancient architect on selecting the choice of the right sized-wedge in one main stage or choosing the wrong spot in the quarry to cut his obelisk from may lead to similar situation. Regardless to the hopeful researches on the ancient techniques that may ancient Egyptians followed in order to disengage the obelisk then to transfer and finally to erect no logic research is done yet.
We may happily accept the wedge method to disengage the obelisk from the granite quarry and tolerate the use of timber wood in order to case the obelisk body with which may help it to float once an enough strong flood be there.
But the matter is far more complicated than that as once someone to imagine the Nile flood with timber wood casing, done to the obelisk, would help the builders of the obelisk to float it just few meters out of it’s cut socket there be an actual challenge which is how to have a full control over a gigantic monolithic peace of granite that is bushed by a tsunami flood つなみ, 津波 in order to reach it’s destination which is supposedly the Karnak temple in Luxor which is about 150 mile north of the quarry. If luck helped the working team to reach with their obelisk the inside of the Karnak will be one final challenge to encounter which how to erect the obelisk over it’s pedestal ?! most of well known theories affirm the method for raising an obelisk should count on sliding technique which simply by creating mud slopes, ramps or embankments which could be in pairs
then having the obelisk sledged up the ramp then pulled down in between? In practice many thing turn to be so different such as for what quality of cords or ropes we should use that can hold the weight of the obelisk while it is pulled” keep in mind no metal chain or pulley were discovered from ancient Egypt yet”.
Also once to imagine the moment that the obelisk is to land in between of the ramps and the moment were it may swing or seesaw with such weight “ between 300 ton to 1200 ton” a splitting in its body and a catastrophe to result to the labours and to the surroundings of the crowded Karnak? Finally how to seek precision while following the previous method while keeping in mind that the obelisk bed is equipped with certain number of bibs or pegs that made mainly to nest on matching sockets on every obelisk pedestal. “Resumption for this essay will be soon” Copyrig ©Musegypt 。
