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John Wall says:
"You do accept that a standard size would greatly ease problems on site ? On that basis a 2 cubit, 2 palm width for these blocks is the only logical answer"
All of the courses on the outside of the pyramid are different heights. All of the horizontal lengths of the wall blocks in the King's chamber are different. The widths of the ceiling blocks in the King
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Jim Alison
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Even if the width of the ceiling blocks are 2 cubits and 2 palms, this does not destroy the pi relationship that this height sets up in the passages and in the King's chamber. However, your claim that the width of the ceiling blocks is 2 cubits and two palms appears to be pure speculation. I would think that this could be checked in places where the passages were cut through such as Mamon&
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Jim Alison
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Hi all,
Here is a quote from Petrie about the height of the passages in the Great Pyramid:
"It has been a favourite idea with some, that two horizontal joints in the passage roof just south of the plugs, were the beginning of a concealed passage: I therefore carefully examined them. They are 60.5 (or 60.1 second measure) apart vertically, and therefore quite different to the passages o
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Hi Jon,
As I understand it, the base of the Great Pyramid was perfectly leveled and this was the first pyramid where all of the courses of masonry were horizontal. Since they went to the trouble of making all of the blocks in each course the same height, they presumably knew the height of each course. There was also very little space between each course. Several authors quote the space betwee
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PS
The theoretical intersection point of the two upper shafts is 22 cubits south of the vertical midline of the pyramid and it is seven cubits below the lowest height of the actual shafts. 22/7 - hmm.
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Jim Alison
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Hi Frank,
Your second diagram is also based on parts of the shafts where the angles are not anywhere near the main angles of the shafts. The angle of the second bend of the southern shaft that you are using in your second diagram is over 50 degrees. The angle of the second bend of the northern shaft that you are using in your second diagram is also greater than the 32.5 - 32.6 degree primary
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Jim Alison
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for your analysis of this. I loaded a couple of Gantenbrink's diagrams into my geometry program and drew 45 and 32.5 degree angles from the points where the shafts are running true down to 84 cubits above ground level. The southern one comes out 3 cubits south of the south wall of the chamber and the northern one comes out 5 cubits north of the north wall of the chamber
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Jim Alison
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The coordinates of the exit points and the points where the shafts begin their angles of ascent are known. The slopes of the shafts can be determined by these coordinates alone and observational data confirms that the great majority of the lengths of both shafts in fact conforms to these slopes. The bends near the lower portions of the shafts were necessary practical adjustments to go around the
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Jim Alison
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Hi all,
The upper shafts exit the pyramid 154 cubits above ground level and the horizontal length of the pyramid at that height is 198 cubits. The floor of the king's chamber is 82 cubits above ground level and the height of the shaft outlets in the chamber is 84 cubits. The northern shaft runs horizontally for five cubits before beginning it's angle of ascent. The southern shaft r
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Jim Alison
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Hi Jon,
I just noticed this comment by Petrie from his on-line book:
"The top course of both the E. and W. walls consists of a single stone; on the N. and S. walls the joints of it were measured thus :– N. wall, E. end 0, joints 62.1, 248.8; S. wall, E. end 0, joint 189.2."
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To begin with, I think he got the N and S walls backwards in his report. He is reporting 3
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Jim Alison
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Hi Jon,
Thanks for this. In his diagram, Smyth shows the block or blocks as missing from the space now occupied by the two small blocks in the southeast corner. Are these two blocks replacement blocks? The other two small blocks in the third course along the south wall are shown as one block in Smyth's diagram. Does he address the inconsistency?
Best,
Jim
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Jim Alison
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JW wrote:
"When you're on a building site you don't want to be bothered with detailed things like maths; you want things in nice simple numbers of (preferably) whole cubits that can be quickly and easily checked."
Or, as you have been quick to point out, 3 cubits and one palm. As in the upper width of the antechamber, or the length of the limestone flooring of the antech
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Jim Alison
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sftonkin wrote:
"In addition to JW's objections, here we see, yet again, the cheap tactics of deceptive numerology. We have one value (2.236) expressed to a precision of 0.001 cubit, another (2 and 5) expressed to a precision of 1 cubit, and another (3.14) expressed to a precision of 0.01 cubits. Why does Alison not express his proposed "expression of pi" to 0.001 cubits? W
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Jim Alison
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Hi all,
I have been looking at some of Petrie's measurements for the antechamber and the passage system from the gallery to the KC. As has been mentioned before, the lower width of the antechamber is 2 cubits and the upper width is 3.14 cubits (expressing pi within the margins of error of the measurements of the upper width). The height of the antechamber is 149.3 inches. This converts t
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Jim Alison
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Hi Jon,
Regarding 18 blocks in the floor, it seems clear to me that the floor was originally designed as six courses running from east to west. Lepre's diagram shows three sets of two half-blocks each. I believe that all three of these sets of two half-blocks were originally single blocks running the length of the their respective courses. Smyth's diagram shows missing blocks in two
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Jim Alison
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Hi Jon,
Thanks for this, much appreciated. It is 100 all right, but I am still bothered by the littlest wall block on the southern end of the second course on the west wall. Your diagrams confirm that the east wall is 18, the north wall is 27 and the south wall is 36 blocks, all multiples of nine, just like the ceiling and the floor. But the small block makes a total of 19 for the west wall
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Jim Alison
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Hi Chris and Jon,
Thanks again for all of the info. I think one problem with Smyth's method of counting the stones as totals from each horizontal course is how to count the stone over the entranceway. It is a stone in the second course and it is a stone in the third course so if he is counting it for both courses then it comes out as two stones in the total.
Jon, how many stones by m
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