Dave L Wrote:
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> Is that the quote I posred from Firth and Quibell
> in English on page 59 of the reference, or is the
> 1931 reference a different one by Lauer in French
> to the same red lines found?
>
> I assume the second?
>
> Sorry to be pedantic but I've got to be
> thorough...

No problem whatsoever ... I found it very confusing, too, so it's important to check.

I think that the quote that you posted - with the bit about lucky numbers - might come from here, but for some reason I have no note of a page reference:

Firth, Cecil Mallaby, 1878-1931.
Title: The step pyramid / by Cecil M. Firth and J.E. Quibell ; with plans by J.-P. Lauer.
Other Entries: Quibell, James Edward, 1867-1935.
Lauer, Jean Philippe, 1902-2001.
Published: Le Caire : Impr. de l’Institut francais d’archeologie orientale, 1935.
Description: 2 v : ill. (1 col.), plans ; 35 cm.
Series: Excavations at Saqqara
Notes: Cover dated 1936.
Contents: Vol.1. Text -- vol.2. Plates

The other reference, the page 59 one (mentioning Princess Hetepher-Nebti, and also the 0.524 m. cubit) would be: Lauer, J.-p., "Etude sur quelques monuments de la IIIe dynastie (Pyramide a degres de Saqqarah)", Annales du Service des Antiquites 31, 1931: 49-64; 59.

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