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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APPENDIX.

TABLE OF DIMENSIONS OF INCLINED PASSAGES,*?

EXCAVATED IN THE ROCK TO THE EASTWARD OF THE
GREAT PYRAMID.

[For description, see page 189, Vol. I.]

Feet. Inches.

Inclined passage from the north.

Length ....

65

9

Height -

3

11

Width

3

5

Angle, 27° 20'.





Length from entrance to ascending passage

40

6

Angle of ascending passage 27°.





Square of perpendicular shaft

2

4

From intersection of passages to horizontal part at the





commencement of ramps - - -

38

4

Height - - - -

Q
O

11

Width (beyond this it is open)

3

5

Horizontal part -

7

8

Continuation of incline to the surface of the ground.





Length -

11

9

Ramp on each side.





Breadth - - -

1

7

Height ....

2

0

Width between -

3



Note. — A considerable part of the lower end of
the passage from the north, is only roughly
chiselled in the rock.

9 Mr. Perring remarks, that these passages are nearly in a line with those of the
Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Pyramids, and that as the flaws in the sides of them
have been made good, and as the rock has been levelled for the foundation of a
building, it was probably intended to erect a pyramid over them ; but that it is to be
doubted whether the intentions have been realised, as the bedding for the stones is
not to be seen, and, likewise, as only three pyramids to the eastward of the Great
one are mentioned by Herodotus. He adds, however, that one of the passages
has been trimmed and plastered; and remarks, that the ramps in the ascending
passage have, in some degree, a resemblance to those in the Great and Third
Pyramids.