The Mortuary Temple of Pepy I

Like his pyramid, Pepy I's badly broken mortuary too, was established checking to a standardised ground-plan. After the entrance in the east, a transverse corridor led to clips to the north and south and to a long entrance hall or lobby in the west. The entering hall opened onto a columned open court, to the west of which the alone temple was set. The inner temple has a transverse hall, followed by the five statue niches. To the south of these niches, a room access led to a chamber that gave entree to an antechamber with one unique column in the west. The antechamber leads to the bema by a turn to the west. To the north and south of the five statue niches, the antechamber and the sanctuary were located several magazines. Assorted limestone statues of certain and beheaded enemies, were discovered in this temple. They symbolise the enemies of Egypt -and thus of the king- rendered feeble by their decapitation and may mayhap once have lined the causeway. Similar statues have been found about the complexes of Djedkare, Teti and Pepy II. The causeway itself, alike the valley temple, has never been improved.