The great pyramid passages and chambers

PLATE CXX. of view is intercepted by my knees; there is sufficient in the photograph, however, to give a general idea of the appearance of the upper portion of the Ante-Chamber. 481 The two wainscots form a very peculiar feature of this little chamber. Their distance apart is the same as the width of the walls of the low passages, i.e., about three

The upper end of the Granite Leaf in the Ante-Chamber of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh; showing one of the three semi-cylindrical grooves tn the top of the west wainscot.

and a half feet. They are each approximately a foot thick, the width, therefore, of the Ante-Chamber is about two feet more in its upper than in its lower part. The whole height of the chamber from floor to roof measures twelve and a half feet, and the length from north to south walls is about nine feet eight inches. The east wainscot reaches upward to within 46 inches of the roof, but the west wainscot is 834 inches higher. This difference in height is well shown in the photograph by the fact that my position,

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