I don't know . Since they dropped those stone plugs down the shaft it's been closed, whenever that was.You think it was open?
I was hoping you had an answer for that unknown symbol. I was looking for a complete translation of the Inventory stele when I ran across this and I've spent the whole day trying to find an answer.
There isn't one. How many scholars over how many years have been studying the Narmer palette? They say this is an unknown symbol.
Let me tell you all what I have learned. At that time rectangles with symbols on the inside represented a place. The rectangle itself would tell you if it was a fortified city or an unfortified town, village , or site. In the url on the Narmer palette posted earlier, one of the pictures was of two figures lying dead on the ground or running, but both are looking back at a fortified city. That rectangle shows the stone fortifications patterned around it. The symbol behind Narmer that I'm talking about shows a plain rectangle. That is an unfortified site.
The symbol inside that rectangle tells the reader the name of the site or village. Egyptologists seem to know the symbols for all the cities of that time - but not this one.
Until someone can tell me what it is (and I didn't say a speech on what it isn't), it looks like a pyramid to me. Furthermore, it looks like the GP because of the depicted triangular entrance. So, if anyone runs across an answer, please let me know.
I'll pursue this another time on the Giza topic thread. I should have put this over there to begin with. I'm back to looking for the Inventory stele.
