Clive Wrote:
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> Can you assist MJ and myself with this Edger
> Brothers deal?

Clive, I do not appreciate your asking for assistance on my behalf.
If I need to ask Jon or anybody else for help, then I shall do so direct.
And for your information, I do not have any problem at all with Edgar's linear measurements of the Descending Passage.


> As you are aware their measures of 26d 18m 10s at
> 105.36 meters are quoted by M&R.
> Petrie measured 26d 31s 23m at 4140" (105.16
> meters).

Actually, according to Petrie the gradient is 26:30:52.39 to 26:32:43.77 (26:31:23 is the mean gradient).
In more detail:
From foot of entrance to Scored Line =
26:28:00 to 26:30:00

From Scored Line to Descending Passage/Ascending Passage floor lines intersection =
26:27:14.81

From foot of entrance to Descending Passage/Ascending Passage floor lines intersection =
26:27:44.55 to 26:28:15.35

From foot of entrance to 4140” =
26:30:52.39 to 26:32:43.77

See Petrie's Pyramids and Temples of Giza First Edition 1883 Sec. 37 [p.59].

J & M Edgar give the gradient as 26:18:10 (slope 3723p" [entrance to lower end of Well Shaft], horizontal 3353.768p", vertical 1650.023p").

It would appear that M & R adopted the Edgar's reading.


> Have you plotted these measures and compared to
> each other? If so...could you post the results for
> the two of us to see?

Again, I do not appreciate your asking for help on my behalf.


> I believe all who are following this post would
> also want to examine the details.

The details I have given above should be of some help.
My conclusion is that the Edgar brothers noted 26:18:10 instead of 26:28:10

MJ

We can't all be right, but we could all be wrong ...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/15/2009 10:25PM by MJ Thomas 2.