Pyramid of Djédefrê
The pyramid of Djédefrê , near, by its dimensions, of the pyramid of Mykérinos, measured between 106 m on its southern face and 106,2 m on its northern side, with a shift compared to the 48 minutes north of arc towards the west.
If its current rise hardly exceeds 12 m, its initial height was to reach 68 theoretically Mr. Ainsi, it was to culminate around 226 m with the top of the sea level, while the top of the pyramidion of Khéops amounted in theory to 206,7 Mr.
It is thus allowed to wonder whether Rêdjédef (Djédefrê), successor of Khéops, were not influenced in the choice of the site by the dominant situation of the plate of Abou Rawash.
The Egyptian name of the pyramid of Djédefrê means “the pyramid which is the star chédou”.
Excavations undertaken
Work is entirely financed by the Funds Swiss national of the scientific research, while logistics is placed at the disposal by the French Institut of oriental archeology of Cairo (IFAO), with the collaboration of the Supreme council of Egyptian Antiquities.
These recent excavations made it possible to release the funerary temple located at the east of the pyramid, determinant which there remained unfinished and which he was finished thereafter out of raw bricks. During the first work of release on the site one could discover representations of Rêdjédef whose red granite head is currently preserved at the Musée of Louvre. The position of the némes which caps the head of the Pharaon lets think that it comes from a sphinx. Since a complete specimen of a sphinx was discovered and is currently preserved at the museum of Cairo. They would be then the first known examples of the kind.
Not far from the funerary temple of the pits with boats and the vestiges of a satellite pyramid were also released attesting that the funerary complex was quite complete.
Thus this archaeological work could determine that the pyramid had indeed been completed and that it started to be used as stone quarry as of the Roman epoch with the installation of an military establishment on the ruins of the funerary temple of Rêdjédef, which explains its actual position and that one believed a long time that the project was abandoned at the time of the demise of the king and the accession to the throne of his/her brother Khéphren.
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