Ahatmose Wrote:
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> And quoting Dorner ...
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his double-sloping pyramid rises to 104.71
> meters, and lies on a square base with sides
> measuring 189.61 meters on average. 4 It is
> oriented toward the cardinal directions with a
> small error varying from 11.8’ to 17.3’ 5 . The
> faces bend suddenly at 47.04 meters above the
> ground, with an angle changing from 54°30’-55° to
> ~43°-44°.
>
> Firstly let's look at the height (as close as any)
> 104.71 meters is in cubits of 20.62 inches 199.924
> of them. Now honestly think about this for just a
> second. Would the ancient builders really have
> built it to this height. don't you think, using
> just a few engrams, that the height is really
> 200.00 cubits even ?
Yes, but what I *ALSO* think is that they used as a "cubit" the measurement of someone's forearm (perhaps the king, perhaps the architect) and used that cubit as a measurement for the work site. When they started a new site, they took the measure of a different king (or someone else.) We've got a bunch of different cubit rods, so I would contend that what you're seeing is the artifact of a different rod and that all measurements were intended to be rounded to the nearest whole number.
-- Byrd
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