Enclosure with steps

The pregnant with steps is a type of typical construction of the Art of the Egyptian Ancient Empire intended to reduce the push by jamming between two buttresses. Most famous is that around the funerary complex of Djéser, but one also finds some around the royal funerary complexes of the Moyen Empire.

Girded royal funerary complexes walls with steps

  • the complex of Djéser

  • the complex of Sekhemkhet
  • the Large enclosure of Saqqarah
  • the pyramid of Amenemhat {{II}}
  • the pyramid of Sésostris {{III}}
  • the Pyramid of Hawara of Amenemhat {{III}}
  • the pyramid of Amenemhat {{III}} with Dahchour
  • the Pyramid of Khendjer
  • the Pyramid of Illahoun of (Sésostris {{II}})

It is also extremely probable that the southern Pyramide of Mazghouna allotted to Amenemhat {{IV}} would have comprised walls with steps if it had been completed.

Representations of enclosure with steps on the royal sarcophagi

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