Pyramid of Khendjer
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 19, 2020 04:41 PM
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History
The pyramid of the Pharaoh Khendjer (Thirteenth Dynasty) who ruled Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period (ca. 1760 B.C.)
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/945930913
29.832222, 31.223889
- Imagery location of Pyramid of Khendjer (2010 BC - 1640 BC)
- Pyramid of Khendjer (English, modern)
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tomb
Pleiades
The pyramid was one part of a larger mortuary complex and originally stood to ca. 37 meters (121 feet) in height. Gustave Jéquier discovered the pyramidion in 1929.
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Pyramid of Khendjer: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/945930913> [accessed: 24 October 2020]
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