Hi Graham,

In the section above the section you quoted from, Petrie talks about the other walls around the second pyramid. About the wall to the north of the second pyramid he says:

"On the N. side it is a wide substructure of very large blocks, rather rudely hewn, and bearing cubit marks and numbers on the backs."

About the wall to the south of the second pyramid he says:

"Tbe true peribolus wall of the Second Pyramid, on the S. side, is only a short piece, 500 feet long, which appears to have been incomplete when the Third Pyramid walls were begun; since it was merged into the latter by an elbow wall, instead of being uniformly finished. It is a fine piece of work as far as it goes, and was apparently intended to be at the same distance from the Pyramid as is the great North wall. It is 5,166 at its outer side, from the S.E corner of the Pyramid; and the outer face or the N. wall is 5,043 from near the N.E. corner of the Pyramid. Thus the N. and S walls were equidistant from the Pyramid but the N. and W. walls were equidistant from the edge of the area. The azimuth of the inner face of the S. wall is – 9' from Pyramid azimuth."

He gives 5166 inches from the south side of the second pyramid to the outer edge of the southern wall and he says that the northern wall was the same distance from the second pyramid. 5166 inches equals 250 cubits - the same as the north-south distance from the southern edge of the great pyramid to the northern edge of the second pyramid. If nothing else, this suggests a relationship between the NS distance from the great pyramid to the second pyramid and the NS distance from the second pyramid to the southern peribolus wall.

Jim



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/19/2007 08:16PM by Jim Alison.