November 12, 2023 06:54AM
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GChase Wrote:
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> The QC north and south shaft elevations are
> extremely close to 9 / 11 and 9 / 11.
The QCS shaft is the one with the most consistent slope, and according to Gantenbrink, it has a slope of 39.5 deg., which is more probably the seked of 8.5 palms, i.e., a slope of 14:17 (39.47 deg.), rather than a slope of 9:11 (39.29 deg.).
As for QCN, it was originally thought that it had the same slope as QCS, but Gantenbrink's survey showed that, unlike QCS, the QCN shaft, before the sudden westward turn, has two distinct slopes. The first sloping segment is only 33.3 deg., possibly a 2:3 slope (33.69 deg.) -- in actuality a slope of 33.3 deg. lies midway between a seked of 10.5 palms (33.69 deg.) and 10.75 palms = 33.07 deg. -- while the second sloping segment is 40.1 deg. (to the nearest 0.1 deg.), close to a seked of 8.33 palms (40.03 deg.). The mean slope is 36.7 deg., possibly a 3:4 slope (36.87 deg.).
There is little to support the idea that either of these lower shafts has an astronomical orientation, especially given the fact that neither of these shafts reach the surface of the pyramid -- unlike the upper shafts, both of which have astronomical as well as geometric functions.
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