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Volume 2: Apparent links

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Table 2 - 1 : Slopes of Old Kingdom tomb passages.
Those within 2/3 degrees of a prime diagonal or edge parallel repetition angle are in red boldface and have mauve boxes in the last two columns.

Pyramid Passage ¯	Source ®	Badawy 1	Edwards 3	Other ref. 4 a - d	Decimal degrees	D to prime slope /edge
Meydum		28⁰	28⁰		28.0000⁰	+ 1.4349⁰
Dashur S (Bent Pyr.) Passage to North		"originally" 26⁰ 10’	28⁰ 22’ then 26⁰ 20’		26.1667⁰	- 0.3984⁰
Dashur S -- to West		26⁰36’	30⁰ 09’ then 24⁰ 17’		26.6000⁰	+ 0.0349⁰
Dashur N (Red Pyr.) ^a		27⁰ 36’	27⁰ 56’	27⁰	27.6000⁰	+ 1.0349⁰
Trial shafts at Khufu^b				» 27⁰	27.0000⁰	+ 0.4349⁰
Khufu lower passage^c		26⁰ 31’ 23"	26⁰31’23"	26⁰34’23"	26.5231⁰	- 0.0420⁰
Khufu Grand Gallery		26⁰ 02’ 30"	26⁰02’ 30"		26.0417⁰	- 0.5234⁰
Djedefre (trench to shaft)^c			22⁰ 35’	22⁰ 35’	22.5833⁰	+ 0.7819⁰
Khafre (lower passage)		21⁰ 40’	21⁰ 40’		21.6667⁰	- 0.1347⁰
Khafre (upper passage)		25⁰ 55’	25⁰ 55’		25.9167⁰	- 0.6484⁰
Menkaure final passage ^c		26⁰ 02’		26⁰ 02’	26.0333⁰	- 0.5318⁰
Mastaba el Fara’un ^c		(not a pyramid)		23⁰ 30’	23.5000⁰	+ 1.6986⁰
Userkaf		26⁰ 35’			26.5833⁰	+ 0.0182⁰
Sahure		27⁰	27⁰		27.0000⁰	+ 0.4349⁰
Neferirkare		26⁰ 03’			26.0500⁰	- 0.5151⁰
Queen Neit of Pepi II		26⁰			26.0000⁰	- 0.5651⁰
Queen Ipuit of Pepi II		23⁰			23.0000⁰	+1.1986⁰
Queen Udjebten of P II		18⁰ 30’			18.5000⁰	+ 0.0651⁰
Standard rise of satellite pyramids from Sahure on^c				63⁰26’6"	63.4349⁰	^{-.930 /+.480}

Sources:

^{1 Alexander Badawy: "A History of Egyptian Architecture", Vol. 1: "From the Earliest Times to the End of the Old Kingdom", Histories & Mysteries of Man, Ltd., London, 1990: see page 155 for summary of angles, page 151 for Queens of Pepi II, pages 137and 138 for Khufu ascending corridor and air shafts. For consistency, I changed Badawy's Greek king names to the Egyptian ones: Cheops = Khufu; Chephren = Khafre; Mycerinos = Menkaure
3 I.E.S. Edwards: "The Pyramids of Egypt", first published 1947, edition consulted Penguin Books, London, 1993, pages 74; 90; 81; 100 to 106, 134 and 135; 168.}

4 a: George B. Johnson: "The Red Pyramid of Sneferu: Inside and Out", KMT, Fall 1997, page 21.

4 b: Zahi A. Hawass: "The Pyramids of Ancient Egypt", The Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, 1990, angle computed from "72.2 feet long, vertical depth 32.8 feet" on page 24; Flinders Petrie had reported 26⁰ 32" in "The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh", London, 1883, Section 30, as posted at http://www.ronaldbirdsall.com/gizeh/petrie/c6.html

4 c: Mark Lehner: "The Complete Pyramids", Thames and Hudson, London, 1997:
Khufu descending passage page 112; Djedefre page 121; Menkaure page 135; Mastabat el-Fara’un page 139; Khufu "Queen’s airshaft" page 67 right; satellite pyramid angles pages 172 and 173;

4 d: George Hart: "Pharaohs and Pyramids", The Herbert Press, London, 1991, page 93.

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