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SUBTERRANEAN Chamber |
by David Bowman
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The surprise rests in the Subterranean Chamber which is the most roughly cut chamber in the Great Pyramid. If that irregularity was intended by an architect or it is merely an unfinished work is uncertain, but it appears that the idea that it is deliberately rough seems more plausible if we reflect that it must have been the first chamber constructed and the other two show no roughness at all.
The large chamber walls are therefore distant from the Pyramid central axis, 302.9 E. at N. wall; 299.6 E. at S. wall; 250.6 W. at N. wall; 254.5 W. at S. wall; 40 S. and 366 S. The central axis thus not passing through the chamber, but 40 inches inside the rock of the N. side.-Petrie
According to this data the approximate dimensions of the Subterranean Chamber are 553.8 by 326 british inches. These two numbers doesn't seem to be the multiples of the royal cubit, but their almost perfect relation of 17:10 suggests that the dimensions were carefully chosen. In King's Chamber the royal cubit was discovered as the tenth fraction of the breadth of the chamber. A tenth fraction of the Subterranean Chamber's breadth is 32.6 british inches, which therefore fit ten times in breadth and 17 times in the length of the chamber. This dimension appears to be 11 palms derived from the royal cubit, which equals 7 palms. Both numbers approximate a half of the value of Pi, 11/7, and since the story of Pi is found everywhere in the dimensions of the Great Pyramid, this is not surprising, that two measures represent coefficients of the Pi equation, Pi=22/7. Hopefully, this newly discovered module 'X' also fits in the height of the chamber.
The lower-eastern-part of the floor, 140 below the roof, which is comparatively flat, is, nevertheless, very irregular and roughly trenched, quite unfinished. The best worked floor surface is just around the square shaft, 198 below the roof, and about 40 below the main part of the floor, which is 155 below roof on a knob of rock beside the shaft.-Petrie
The irregularity of the floor is offering a few heights for calculations, but as cited, the best worked floor surface is just around the square shaft, 198 below the roof, which is very close to 6 modules X, or 66 palms. The other two heights, 140 and 155, don't fit into module X, but it seems that they were picked according to the whole number of digits: 190 and 250.
| dimension |
b. inch |
cm |
module X |
palm |
digit |
| length |
554 |
1,407 |
17 |
187 |
748 |
| breadth |
326 |
828 |
10 |
110 |
440 |
| height1 |
198 |
502.9 |
6 |
66 |
264 |
| height2 |
140 |
355.6 |
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47.5 |
190 |
| height3 |
155 |
393.7 |
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52.5 |
210 |
module X = 32.6 b.i. = 11 palms
royal cubit = 7 palms
11/7 = Pi/2
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