Pyramid n°1 of Lepsius

The pyramid n°1 of Lepsius is an anonymous pyramid, undoubtedly unfinished located at the North-East of the southern necropolis of Abou Rawash. It owes to this enigmatic name with its discoverer the Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius who places it at the first rank in his list of the pyramids of Egypt. The shape of the monument is always prone to debate since certain Egyptologists as Jean-Philippe Lauer sees a Mastaba rather there.

Description

This monument remains very ignored in spite of a preliminary study carried out by NR. Swelim in 1987. The estimates height of the pyramid varies from 107,5 meters to more than 150,5 meters, the latter exceeding that of the Pyramide of Khéops. The base was to be approximately 215 meters. Its dating also is very discussed, the ones advancing it or it and the others it or. NR. Swelim chooses, advancing the fact that the solid mass of the pyramid profits from a rock eminence, architectural characteristic clean with the pyramids of this period.

The superstructure consisted of believed brick steps, similar to those of a Pyramide to degrees, which were according to NR. Swelim, covered with a facing giving the final aspect of a Pyramide to smooth faces.

The funerary apartments follow the same plan as that of the Pyramide of Djédefrê. A long descending shaft accessible on the face northern and tilted from an angle of 25°. However, this descending shaft is mainly cut in the rock and ends in an underground funerary room, located under the apex and whose dimensions are of 5,50 side meters at the base and 5 meters height.

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