. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . occupying it, and must haveconstructed a second one at Mêdûm. 2 No satisfactory etymon for the word pyramid has as yet been proposed : the least far-fetchedis that put forward by Cantor-Eisenlohr (Eisenlohk, Des Mesures égyptiennes, in the Transactions ofthe International Congress of Orientalists, 1874, p. 288, and Ei?i Maihematisches Randbuch der AlienMgypter, p. 116), according to which pyramid is the Greek form, wvpants, of the compound term piri-m-ûisi, which in Egyptian mathematical phraseology designates the salient angle, the ridgeor heig
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . occupying it, and must haveconstructed a second one at Mêdûm. 2 No satisfactory etymon for the word pyramid has as yet been proposed : the least far-fetchedis that put forward by Cantor-Eisenlohr (Eisenlohk, Des Mesures égyptiennes, in the Transactions ofthe International Congress of Orientalists, 1874, p. 288, and Ei?i Maihematisches Randbuch der AlienMgypter, p. 116), according to which pyramid is the Greek form, wvpants, of the compound term piri-m-ûisi, which in Egyptian mathematical phraseology designates the salient angle, the ridgeor height of the pyramid (L. Kodet, Sur un Manuel du Calculateur découvert dans un papyruségyptien, p. 8 ; taken from the Bulletin de la Société mathématique de France, 1878, vol. vi. p. 146 ;E. Eévillout, Note sur léquerre égyptienne et son emploi, daprès le Papijrus Mathématique, in theBévue Égyptologique, vol. ii. p. 309 ; L. BouciiAiiDT, Die Boschungen der Pyramiden, in the Zeitschrifl,vol. xxxi. p. 14). THE PYRAMID OF MEDÛM. 359. is replaced by a structure of stone or It indicates the place in whichlies a prince, chief, or person of rank in his tribe or province. It was builton a base of varying area, and was raised to a greater or less elevationaccording to the fortune of the deceased or of his The fashion ofburying in a pyramid was not adopted in the environs of Memphis untiltolerably late times, and the Pharaohs of the primitive dynasties were interred,as their subjects were, in sepulchral chambers or was the only exception, if the step-pyramid ofSaqqâra, as is probable, served for his Themotive which determined Snofrûis choice of Mêdûmas a site, is unknown to us : perhaps he dwelt inthat city of Heracleopolis, which in course oftime frequently became the favourite residenceof the kings : perhaps he improvised for him-self a city in the plain between El-Wastah -^^^^^^Mand Kafr el-Ayat. His pyramid, at the THE PYRAMID
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