The pyramid of Ameny Qemau is an ancient Egyptian pyramid located in southern Dahshur. It was constructed for Ameny Qemau, an obscure king of the 13th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period.K.S.B. Ryholt: The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c.1800-1550 BC, Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, vol. 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997

Pyramid The pyramid originally stood high with a base length of . The entrance was towards the east. The stone constituting its upper structure has been entirely robbed but the damaged substructures remain.

The burial chamber comprised from a single colossal block of quartzite similar to that of Amenemhat III, with receptacles for the sarcophagus and the canopic jars hewn out of the interior of the block.Mark Lehner: The Complete Pyramids, London: Thames and Hudson (1997), p.185 .

Excavations The earliest known historical mention of the pyramid of Ameny Qemau is found in the book of the medieval Arab historian Taqi al-Din Ahmad Al-Maqrizi "Geography and History of Egypt"Taqi al-Din Ahmad Al-Maqrizi: Geography and History of Egypt, French translation available online. where Al-Maqrizi describes the "pyramids of Dashur".

The pyramid of Ameny Qemau was rediscovered in 1957 by a team led by Charles Arthur Musès.Robert Schiestl: Pottery from Pyramids of the 13th Dynasty in the Dahshur Region: Survey in Dahshur 2006 in: Bulletin de Liaison de la Ceramique Egyptienne 23 (2012), Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale , pp. 51–62 In 1968, Vito Maragioglio and Celeste Rinaldi investigated the architecture of the pyramid.V. Maragioglio, C. Rinaldi: Note sulla piramide di Ameny ‘Amu, Orientalia n.s. 37 (1968), pp. 325–338 More recently, the remains of the funerary equipment of the king were published by Nabil Swelim and Aidan Dodson.Nabil Swelim, Aidan Mark Dodson: On the Pyramid of Ameny-Qemau and its Canopic Equipment, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, 1998, p. 319–334.

See also

Egyptian pyramid construction techniques List of Egyptian pyramids Lepsius list of pyramids

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