Gabb, Thomas: Finis pyramidis or Disquisitions concerning the antiquity and scientific end of the great pyramid of Giza, or ancient Memphis, in Egypt, and of the first standard of linear measure (Retford, 1806)

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saeer, or sacred cubit, mentioned in the Jewish kalen-
dar, above cited, might have answered the purpose. But
this will produce but 60 yards for the length ; 20 yards
for the breadth ; and 30 yards for the height. Now the
ichnographia, by these cubits, is by no means adequate
to the number, and nature of the things recorded, as
furniture and apartments contained in the Temple ; such
as the atrium, or court surrounded by 3 rows of marble,
and one row of cedar columns ; a grand basilica, where-
of the throne was ascended by stairs on each side, which
with the extent of the platform, occupied about 11 yards;
12 curious tables ; a golden altar ; and thousands of gol-
den and silver vessels, &c ; and one third of the length
assigned to the oracle, or sanctum sanctorum. But if
this ichnographia were admissible ; yet it will prove to
be an insuperab le task, to attempt to reconcile, by that
measure, the 120 cubits of height, to the other recorded
height ; for 30 cubits augmented, by the cubitus sacer
to 30 yards, reach not to half thejieight of 120 cubit»
of Cairo, which, without augmentation, produce above
72 yards.

In conclusion, then, of this chapter, it may safely

be established, as a rule, that, as there are 2 measures

called cubits, in the sacred records of the dimensions

belonging to this Temple ; when a manifest absurdity

would folio w the assumption of the one, the other will

give the true dimension. And both these scripture

cubits, in the quantity they import, are established on

the same ancient, stable, and perpetuated standard; vizJ

the granite Chest in the Pyramid of Giza, the one being

equal to the entire length of the Chest, the other exactly

a fourth part of it. And as the Nilometre cubit is also

the same, there can be no doubt of their being known

also