Pyramid of Queen Nebwenet

Eastside of the six pyramids, she was likely a consort of Pepi I. There may be new pyramid farther east. There is small left of this pyramid, but it does contain a gentle mortuary temple Mortuary temple on the east wall, the incoming based in a snall antechamber to the north. The offering hall contained a false door. It was constructed of limestone.

Incoming is in the north courtyard under a mudbrick chapel contining alone a fragment of an altar. The incoming lead to a small descending cooridor which expanded to a chamber, blocked by a simple barrier Burying chamber is jut south of the veritcal axis of rotation of the pyramid, oriented east-west. No dedications on the walls. No mummy, but a gold granite sarcophagus was found.  A serdab to the east contains wooden winding weights, wooden ostrich plumages and other funerary items

Pyramid of Queen Inenek-Inti

The Pyramid of Queen Inenek-Inti set to the West of Nebwenets. Somewhat larger than Nebwenets, with its own envelopment wall and its own cult pyramid on the southeast corner

Morturary temple roll about the wast, north, and south sides. Introduced from the north and into a columned courtyard. The pyramid is slenderly larger than Nebwenet, but about the said on the ground floor. Entered from the pavement on the north side below a chapel, with a descnening passage that extends to a chamber. However, the burial chamber is center.

The Pyramid Complex of Pepy I

King Pepy I was the first king of the 6th Dynasty have built his pyramid complex in Saqqara-South. His two immediate precursors, Unas and Teti, had chosen the neighborhood of the Step Pyramid complex of Djoser in Saqqara-North as their last resting place. Pepy chose the high desert to the northwest of the pyramid of Djedkare, of the fifth Dynasty. His pyramid is the northwestern royal monument of Saqqara-South.

The name of this pyramid complex , mn-nfr, "the beautiful memorial" would later be used for the city that lay to the east, and would be established in Greek as Memphis. Structure The Pyramid Complex of Pepy I comprises all the elements that by the sixth Dynasty had already went standard: a pyramid with to the east of it, a mortuary temple and a satellite pyramid and cold to the east a causeway that lead towards a valley temple. In the late 1980's, an enormous hill of debris and rubble placed to the south of the main pyramid was saw by a French team of archaeologists. They found four or maybe even five little pyramids with adjourning mortuary temples that once belonged Pepy I's queens. The queen for whom the southeastern most of these pyramids was built was addressed Nebwenet. She taken the titles 'wanted wife of the king'. The queen of the second pyramid bore the name Inenek/Inti and the third queen, whose figure is not (yet) known bore the titles 'eldest daughter of the king'. A stela written with the name of Meritites, 'daughter of the pharaoh and wife of the king' has led to the find of a 4th pyramid and close a fifth queen's pyramid has been learned.

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