Pyramid of Khendjer

The Chendjer pyramid stands on the west bank of the Nile approximately 30 kilometers south of Cairo, Saqqara -South. It dates to the 13th Dynasty ( around 1750 BC) and is one of the few pyramids that era, which was completed conjectural. A field survey of the German Archaeological Institute in the spring of 2006, the pyramid with the label SAK S 5 has been provided.

Research

Was first mapped the pyramid of Karl Richard Lepsius, which assigned her the number XLIV in his pyramid list. Beginning of the 20th century, the Pyramid of Gustave Jéquier was excavated and examined.

Details

The pyramid built of adobe was originally about 37.75 m high, had an inclination angle of 55 ° and a base length of 52.5 m, which corresponds to 100 cubits. The building is just a meter high today. The exterior cladding consisted of limestone. At the top there was a Pyramidion black granite, which was labeled and decorated.

The entrance to the Great Pyramid was in the West. A staircase led to a chamber, originally by a giant stone should be blocked, but which was still in waiting position in a niche of the wall, so that access at this point was never locked would. After a lengthy, multiple tortuous passage was followed by another barrier, and beyond the grave chamber, which was embedded in a monolithic quartzite block. Two blocks formed the ceiling, a gable roof was over which of limestone, which served to relieve the grave chamber of the pressure of the overlying rock loads.

North of the pyramid there was a second smaller pyramid in the likely family members should be buried. In her grave chambers were found two sarcophagi and Kanopenkästen. Furthermore, a Kanopenfragment with the name of the king 's wife was Seneb ... ( rest of the name not preserved) found in the Pyramid district. Perhaps the name may be supplemented to Seneb [ henaes ].

Prior to the east side of the pyramid there was a mortuary temple, where relief fragments found indicate that this was possibly completed and fully decorated. The pyramid complex was surrounded by two perimeter walls, the inner wall, the actual pyramid, the mortuary temple and the north chapel enclosed, while the outer wall led to the complete system including the satellite pyramid.