Howard-Vyse, Richard William Howard: Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into upper Egypt, and Appendix (Band 2) (London, 1841)

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Feet. Indies.

Distance from the ceiling to the top of the entrance 1 7

Horizontal part

Length - - - 16 9

Height - - - 4 7

Breadth - - 3 5k

Inclined part.

Length - - - - 63 7

Height - - - 3 11J

Breadth - - - • 3 5|

Angle 27° 34".
Perpendicular depth from the base of the pyramid to

the floor of the large apartment - - 34 8

Perpendicular depth from the base to the floor of apart-
ment of the sarcophagus - - - 51 0
Distance from the centre of the pyramid southwards, to

the northern side of the large apartment - 3 3

Distance from the centre of the pyramid westward,

from the eastern end of the large apartment - 10 4

Square of platform on the summit - - 16 0

Original quantity of masonry - 9,132,000 cubic feet,

Or, - - - 702,460 tons

Present quantity of masonry - 8,220,900 cubic feet.

Or, - - 632,370 tons.

Acres. Roods. Poles.
Extent of base - - 2 3 21

TABLE OF DIMENSIONS OF THE FOURTH PYRAMID,

THE CENTRAL SOUTH OF THE THIRD.

[For the description of this Pyramid, see page 45, &c. Vol. II.]

Square of base ... - 102 G

Height of first step - - - 17 3

- second step - - - 19 6

- third step - - - 19 6

- fourth step - - - 13 3

Total height - - - 69 6

Square of the summit, about - - - 23 4

Horizontal distance of entrance from the northern front 13 0
Distance of the entrance westward from centre of

pyramid - - - 12 0