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The ruins of Queen Sobekneferu's
Pyramid (North of Mazghuna) |
Directly to the north of the advance pyramid, the second pyramid at
Mazghuna is also of uncertain origin, but is sometimes assigned to Amenhotep IV's successor, perchance his sister (and perhaps wife), Queen
Sobeknefru (Nefrusobek) who found for about three years in her individual right. Sobeknefru was the first decidedly old female pharaoh (although Queen Nitiqret may have ruled in
Dynasty VI). The North Pyramid was designed to be larger than its neighbor and attributed to the queen solely on structural grounds. The super construction of the pyramid seems never to have been begun, but the project of the black chambers is more full than that of
Amenemhat IV. The entrance to the substructure is to the east of the northern side of the base and has a coming stairway which turned several times through various chambers went with blocking plugs before giving the burial chamber. The burial chamber once more taken a huge quartzite forget with carved-out blanks for the coffin and
canopic jars. Although the sarcophagus block was pressed, plastered and finished red, there was never any burial here. Neither was the rest of the pyramid complex good, although mudbrick walls of a causeway were found to approach the structure from the east. It was inquired in 1910 by Ernest MacKay.
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