User:Hypnôs/sandbox/Ancient Egyptian stoneworking technology

Skills and tools

Materials

Hardness, Arsenic

Pounders and hammers

Saw marks on a basalt floor slab, from the pyramid temple of Khufu at Giza, c. 2600 BC

Drills

Stone-vessel production with drills

Methods and technologies

Corners

Stonemasons crafting two granite colossi, a limestone sphinx and a limestone offering table; scene from the tomb of Rekhmire, c. 1400 BC

Gallery

• Hard stone pharaonic statues
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  Khafre
  c. 2550 BC
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  Amenemhat II
  c. 1900 BC
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  Sobekemsaf I
  c. 1600 BC
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  Tutankhamun
  c. 1300 BC
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  Amasis II
  c. 550 BC
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  Ptolemy I Sorter
  c. 300 BC

• Hard stone sculptures
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  Menkaure Triad
  c. 2500 BC
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  Pyramidion of Amenemhat III
  c. 1850 BC
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  Statue of Sekhmet
  c. 1350 BC
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  Sarcophagus of Gemenefhorbak c. 650 BC
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  Rosetta Stone
  196 BC

Sources

• Stocks, Denys Allen (2003). Experiments in Egyptian archaeology: stoneworking technology in ancient Egypt. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-30664-5.