robin cook Wrote:
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> Origen wrote -"l think that the ark, as much as is
> clear from the things that are described, had four
> angles rising from the bottom that gradually
> narrowed as they came to the peak and came
> together in the space of one cubit. Thus the cubit
> is the length and width of the peak." The question
> of how Origen arrived at this peculiar and
> unorthodox idea of the ark as a pyramid remains an
> interesting question.

Apparently, from an Old Latin source, as discussed more fully here - [www.jstor.org]: 246-8.

Seel also:

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The Pyramid and the Ark Interestingly, at the same time the church fathers also identified Noah’s Ark as being pyramid shaped, suggesting a reason that late antiquity came to view the pyramids as arks in stone that preserved knowledge, just as the wooden Ark preserved life. Origen in Genesis Homily 2, Philo in Questions and Answers on Genesis 2.5, and Clement in Stromata 6.11 all claimed that the Ark was pyramidal in shape. They derived this from the account in Genesis, which claims that the Ark was three hundred by fifty cubits at the base but rose to a window embedded in a peak just one cubit square. They concluded, therefore, that the ship must be pyramidal to fit those measurements. The same claim appeared in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the belief lasted well into the Renaissance. A pyramid-shaped Ark appears on the Florentine Baptistery’s Gates of Paradise by Lorenzo Ghiberti (completed in 1452), confusing tourists to this day.
Colavito, Jason. The Legends of the Pyramids (p. 60).

See also [www.google.co.uk], p. 162.

> At any rate it is clear that
> early 15th.C artists tried illustrate the
> ark/pyramid identity.
>
> My question concerned Ghiberti's representation of
> the pyramid which seems to agree with modern
> reconstructions. But this jarred with other crude
> early representations of pyramids, as illustrated
> on this otherwise speculative site -
> [earth-chronicles.com]
>
> One explanation might be that he used the
> dimensions found in Herodotus, but would he have
> had access to this source? - only a few
> translations (in latin) were circulating in the
> early 15th.C. Or is his depiction, with its
> 'zones' and 'ramps', the results of a graphic or
> geometric exercise? - I have not yet found any
> links explaining the numbers and divisions shown
> on the pyramid. I wonder if anyone here would
> know?

There's some discussion of the queston in Dilbeck, at the link I posted previously.

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