- Quarries at Aswân, 12.
- Ramesses IV, expedition of, 29.
- Rammers, 13.
- Rate of work in pounding granite, 14.
- Records of ancient workmen, 18–20.
- Reed cushion, 41.
- Rollers,
- — obelisk placed on, 31, 38.
- — ancient, 38.
- Rolling obelisk from quarry, 23–25.
- Ropes, sizes of, 25.
- Rusting of iron, 26.
- Sand,
- — cohesion of particles in, 39.
- — packing with, 24, 25.
- — used in erections, 35, 39.
- Sarcophagi, unfinished, 12.
- Scale models, 40, 43.
- Seringapatam obelisk, 36.
- Sheers, 38.
- Sleds, 32, 41.
- Slot in obelisk pedestals, 40, 41.
- Softening (!) granite, 26.
- Soldiers in transport work, 29, 30.
- Specific gravity of ‘pounders’, 12.
- Stains on dolerite ‘pounders’, 12.
- Steel, 25, 26.
- Stresses due to weight of obelisk, 42, 43.
- Survey Department, 1.
- Tempering of copper, 27.
- Test-shafts, 6.
- ut
- otpe (see D
- ut
- otpe), 30, 38.
- utiy, record of 108 cubit obelisk, 43.
- Time taken in pounding out trench, 14.
- Transport of obelisks, 29–33.
- Trench on upper quarry-face, 17.
- Trench round obelisk, 11–15.
- Tuthmôsis I, obelisk of, 9.
- Tuthmôsis III, obelisk of, 9, 10.
- Undercutting obelisks in quarry, 23, 24.
- Units used in this volume, 2.
- Wedges, 4, 5, 26.
- Weight of Aswân obelisk, 3, 9.
- Weight of obelisks compared, 9.
- Work, ancient arrangement of, 14.
Plate II
(1) View from East.