SAK S 7
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SAK S 7 ( Saqqara South 7 ) is the provisional , modern name of an ancient Egyptian pyramid that was found in the spring of 2006 during a survey in Saqqara South. The plant appears as a hill on some ancient maps without being identified as a pyramid. It dates with some certainty to the 13th Dynasty (around 1750 BC) due to ceramic fragments from beer mugs .
Construction details
The building is located about 50 m southeast of the southern pyramid of Saqqara-South and can be easily recognized on satellite images. It appears as a flat mound, the dimensions of which indicate an original base length of 52.5 m (100 royal cells ), which was a common pyramid measure of the 13th Dynasty. A depression of 25 m × 28 m in the pit of the substructure can be seen in the hill, as well as a trench that leads to the pit from the east and formed the original access.
Quartzite fragments were found northeast of the building , which presumably came from the burial chamber of the pyramid.
exploration
Since the pyramid has not yet been excavated, neither the owner is known, nor can it be said whether the construction was ever completed.
literature
- Robert Schiestl: News on the residential necropolis of the 13th dynasty. In: Sokar. No. 13, 2006, p. 47.
- Nicole Alexanian, Robert Schiestl, Stephan Johannes Seidlmayer : The Necropolis of Dahshur Third Excavation Report Spring 2006. Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2006, p. 15 ( full text as PDF file; 3.1 MB ).
Coordinates: 29 ° 49 ′ 46 ″ N , 31 ° 13 ′ 22 ″ E