April 22, 2008 08:03AM
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Registered: 19 years ago
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Hi Graham,
Petrie gives the azimuth of the west wall of the workmans barracks (the one that is in close alignment with the west side of G3) as plus 9 minutes east of due north. So yes, this is close to the same azimuth as G3 while it is at variance, or in error in relation to the minus azimuths of G1 and G2.
I agree that the NE corner of G1 and the SW corner of G3 form a 11/9 rectangle as surveyed by Petrie, but his baseline of 5 minutes west of due north ignores the azimuth of G3 and the possibility that the different azimuth of G3 was used to determine the placement of G3 in relation to the other two pyramids.
I agree that the distance from mid-east G1 to mid-west G3 is 2000 cubits based on Petrie's survey. However, it is not at 45 degrees unless you rotate the north baseline of the overall site. I understand the justification for this in the different azimuth of G3. However, this has the effect of making the azimuths of G1 and G2 misaligned in respect to the NS baseline of the overall site. Since G1 and G2 were more accurately aligned and since their azimuths are almost perfectly aligned to each other, this seems to me more suspect than my suggestion.
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