May 21, 2021 12:56PM
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Hi Mark,
Your analyses depend upon a proposed length of the cubit at Dashur of 20.68", or 0.52527 m. The bulk of Egyptological references quote values around 0.523 to 0.525 metres for the length of the royal cubit, favouring 0.5236 - 0.524 metres.
To recap this very long thread, Petrie's figure for the Bent base was 189.46 m. Dorner's is 189.61 m. Monnier and Puchkov give an average of 189.61 m. This converts to a base of 362 cubits, of value 0.5238 m.
Dorner gives the base of the Red as 219.08 m, which converts to a base of 418 cubits of value 0.524 m, almost the same as that used at the Bent and, as Petrie showed, to lay out the inner chambers of Khufu. The bases of Khufu and the Red relate as 440 : 418 = 20 : 19.
The similar slopes of the Upper Bent and the Red support the idea that there are design links between the two pyramids. Moreover their bases sensibly relate as root three - 362 / 209 = 1.732. Of course you may prefer to see this as a coincidence - but if the Red measures 420 cubits of value 0.522 m then you lose the relations between the two pyramids. As you do with 360 cubits of value 0.5267 m at the Bent.
But I find it difficult to accept that the two 'design related' Dashur pyramids were intentionally built using such markedly variant cubits - we shall see. That is if I have understood what you are saying - for many years you have thrown out references to your own work which appear not to be easily accessible (something about the British Museum I recall) nor have you provided any diagrams to illustrate your arguments, apparently expecting the reader to hold a virtual image in the mind while taking in mathematical calculation. Why not simply provide a web link? Or perhaps find some way of providing a picture or two. I mean you could make your posts more 'user friendly'.
Anyway this thread is a bit superannuated. Perhaps a new topic?
robin
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