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If you look at his image you see how he has nicely used 280, 181 and 99 to define the complex. This gives him an overall dimension of 560 cubit. All well and good and since according to Petrie the surrounding walls were 80.6 inches or 3.91 cubits we get an overall size of 560 + 8 (rounded) to get 568 cubits. Major problems however arise when one checks what Petrie actually measured and wrote. Rather than tell you I will simply post an image of what he wrote in his book: . . . . .  He has 11755.7 approx for the measurements and when one adds them together and averages the sides one gets about 570.12 to 570.33 cubis. Now Petrie several times emphasizes that the wall is 80.6 inches wide and this translates to 3.91 cubits. Even being charitable and rounding up to 4 we get 570 - 8 or 562 cubits. Petrie in his notes also states . . . . . . . . . .  When one adds all of these together and takes the average one gets 2149.1 inches and 2149.1divided by 20.62 yields 104.22. Now since the wall is 3.91 cubits thick we get actual 104.22 - 3.91 or 100.31 from the inner wall to the pryamid. If we use actual we get 570.33 minus 104.33 twice (208.66) and we get 361.67. If we use 570.12 we get 361.46 and firstly that is not 362 ( but very close to what was actually measured) and secondly the distance he has shown as 99 is simply wrong. It is 100 so like his diagram at Giza this one is totally wrong as well. |