MYKERINO PYRAMID
This pyramid, 65 m high and 105 m square, with a funerary complex, is the smallest on the Giza plateau.
Mykerinos (2532-2515 BC), son of Kephren and Khamerernebti, was the fifth pharaoh of Dynasty IV. Externally badly damaged, its pyramid seems quite modest compared to Khufu and Kephren. With its 65 m high and 105 m sides, it is the smallest of the Giza plateau! Exhumed by English explorers, its sarcophagus was unfortunately lost at sea during its transport to the United Kingdom in 1837.
Funerary temples. The interest of this pyramid lies especially in its funerary complex better preserved than those of Cheops and Kephren and composed of two temples connected by a long corridor. The temple near the pyramid housed the food offerings intended for the daily services of the king's cult that the priests celebrated. The second temple built in the valley contained a series of statues of the king accompanied by the goddess Hathor and another deity personifying different regions of the kingdom. These Triads of Mykerinos, which depict him as an athletic and eternally young king, are on display in the Cairo Museum.
Extensive studies of these funerary monuments have shown that they were built in two phases: begun under Mykerinos, they were completed under his successor. A fact that supports the thesis of an untimely death of the sovereign before his tomb was completely completed.
On the south side, the three small satellite pyramids probably belonged to the queens of Mykerinos. Each of them has its own small temple of worship.
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