Hi all.

Normally I would post this below but I feel that I may have solved what this may represent. I make no claims where it might have been used although I have ideas and will be posting them below but I just wanted to get a feel of what the rest of the group thought of my solution. It has been claimed that it is not an ellipse but a segment of a circle. I think I may have proven it is neither. Please see my diagrams below and all comments will be greatly appreciated.

It is I think part of the surface of an "egg'. The Primal Egg ? Well I won't even speculate on that.

Here are my diagrams.

This first diagram is a larger rendition of what is on the original.



See here for details: [www.egyptorigins.org]

Next I expanded on it and tried to draw a circle to enclose the line. I failed to be able to do this but found that an egg shape or oval seemed to work perfectly. After drawing the the oval I measured it using pixels and discovered it measured almost exactly 0.7 to 1 or 1 to 1.42857142

Here is that diagram:









The segment shown or being used is 98/140 = 0.7 .

To prove my point I decided to draw one of these to scale and see how it looked. Here is the result:



It looks like a perfect fit to my diagram. If this is true and if this is some sort of blueprint as had been speculated then what we need to do now is try to find something in Egypt that may follow these ratios. I think I have found some but that will be posted below.

Here is the website where I got my sizes and I think I may have solved it.

And it is this article that calls it:

AN ARCHITECT'S DIAGRAM OF THE 3RD DYNASTY

An article by Battiscombe Gunn

Published in Annales du Service des Antiquites de L'Egypte,

Volume 26, 1926, pages 197 - 202

Printed by the Institute of France, Oriental Archaeology,

Le Caire, France

Best regards
Don Barone




"There is nothing as impenetrable as a closed mind"
and ..." if everything is a coincidence what is the point of studying or measuring or analyzing anything ?" db



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/13/2010 09:42AM by Ahatmose.