Abu Roash
Looking north up the Entrance passage
Name of Pyramid:
‘Djedefre is a Sehed-Star’
Period: 4th Dynasty
Base: 106 meters
Height: 67 meters
Volume: 131 043 cubic meters
Slope: 52 degrees
Quartzite head of Djedefre wearing the nemes crown - photograph by Hans Ollermann
Now kept in the Louvre, this head was originally discovered in Djedefre’s boat pit, which you can see on the east side of his pyramid if you zoom in on the satellite photo above. The shape of the remaining area behind the headdress suggests that this piece originally formed the head of a sphinx.
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