Pyramid of Nemtiemsaf I ( Merenre I ) in Saqqara
xai-nfr-mry.n-ra (Merenre's beauty shines)
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A - burial chamber base length:
78.75 m |
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Pyramid
complex of Nemtiemsaf in
Southern
Saqqara,
located south-west from Pepi I complex, has not been finished and it is
much damaged due to stone robbery. Localization and decoration with
Texts of Pyramids is patterned on pyramid of Pepi I. On the eastern side
of the pyramid there is a funerary temple and on the northern – chapel.
In 1880 in the
burial
chamber
Maspero
found basalt sarcophagus with mummy of young man,
whose hair was combed into a side curl such as those worn by children in
ancient Egypt. E.Smith, an expert on Egyptian mummies, assigned it to
the XVIIIth Dynasty. Later on, a few Egyptologists suggested that it was
Merenre's mummy after all. |
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ruin of pyramid | probably mummy of the king |
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