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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.14#0059
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set of facts
Since writing the above sketch, from a very careful and exhaustive consideration of
recorded dimensions, it is clear that in Persepolis especially, also at Mourgaub and
Nineveh, there was a unit employed of 14*5 ± Ί5 inches in length.
Now, exactly as the Karnak Cubit was derived from the King's Chamber Unit, so
this Persepolis covid (as we may call it, as being very near, and only near, the Chinese
covid or chik, of all the known national measures) is presumably derived from the
Antechamber Unit ; which, long before perceiving this covid, I had (in u Dominant
Units ") fixed as a 400th of the Pyramid height, or 14*587 British inches, and it was
only some time after seeing clearly, and wondering at, the existence of the covid, that
it first occurred to me that it was identical with the Antechamber Unit, or a 400th of
the Pyramid height.
Thus the two foundations of national measures, besides the Sacred Cubit and its
inch, are the King's Chamber Unit = a 400th of the Pyramid cone radius slanting, and
the Antechamber Unit == a 400th of the Pyramid cone radius horizontal, i.e. the
Pyramid radius or height. Therefore, the covid squared is half the area of the Karnak
Cubit squared, or the square covid would just go diagonally in the square Karnak
Cubit, the squares being lineally a 400th of the squared Pyramid height (for which we
have abundant evidence) diagonally inscribed in the squared cone line. So that, in
another aspect, the covid was a multiple of the palm of the Karnak Cubit, elevated
into a primary standard. Further, as the cone slant of the Pyramid to the King's
Chamber level is equal to the Pyramid height ; it is also, by before mentioned" facts,
400 covids.
Thus, in the Great Pyramid we see the fountain head of all the ancient metrology
subsequent to the Sacred Cubit and the coffer contents, which were used in its prede-
cessor, the Ark of Noah, as well as in its successors, the Tabernacle and the Temple.
W. M. F. P.
April, 1874.
1872.
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57
4oulrl
if
V2.
î$0
beSo
any such
!*>*■
arn^ Cubit
- conse(|llent
length beats
%H (being
■d beat only
7 as above
ta Pyramid
nected with
ta Pyramid
the King's
Jitechamber
that when
ierved with
)verable by
îe Pyramid,
;he Karnak
dyles, or 5
ique sort of
ad internal
iate to say
3SS we can
set of facts
Since writing the above sketch, from a very careful and exhaustive consideration of
recorded dimensions, it is clear that in Persepolis especially, also at Mourgaub and
Nineveh, there was a unit employed of 14*5 ± Ί5 inches in length.
Now, exactly as the Karnak Cubit was derived from the King's Chamber Unit, so
this Persepolis covid (as we may call it, as being very near, and only near, the Chinese
covid or chik, of all the known national measures) is presumably derived from the
Antechamber Unit ; which, long before perceiving this covid, I had (in u Dominant
Units ") fixed as a 400th of the Pyramid height, or 14*587 British inches, and it was
only some time after seeing clearly, and wondering at, the existence of the covid, that
it first occurred to me that it was identical with the Antechamber Unit, or a 400th of
the Pyramid height.
Thus the two foundations of national measures, besides the Sacred Cubit and its
inch, are the King's Chamber Unit = a 400th of the Pyramid cone radius slanting, and
the Antechamber Unit == a 400th of the Pyramid cone radius horizontal, i.e. the
Pyramid radius or height. Therefore, the covid squared is half the area of the Karnak
Cubit squared, or the square covid would just go diagonally in the square Karnak
Cubit, the squares being lineally a 400th of the squared Pyramid height (for which we
have abundant evidence) diagonally inscribed in the squared cone line. So that, in
another aspect, the covid was a multiple of the palm of the Karnak Cubit, elevated
into a primary standard. Further, as the cone slant of the Pyramid to the King's
Chamber level is equal to the Pyramid height ; it is also, by before mentioned" facts,
400 covids.
Thus, in the Great Pyramid we see the fountain head of all the ancient metrology
subsequent to the Sacred Cubit and the coffer contents, which were used in its prede-
cessor, the Ark of Noah, as well as in its successors, the Tabernacle and the Temple.
W. M. F. P.
April, 1874.
1872.
H