Mounds of limestone and granite debris surround Djedefre’s unfinished pyramid at Abu Rawash. Red granite was used in the pyramid’s lower exterior casing, while fine Tura limestone was also used for the casing; pink Aswan granite appears in internal features such as the burial chamber and portcullis slabs. Chris Dunn photographed and measured a rose-red granite block with a knob-like projection and flat worked surfaces. The video compares such blocks with examples from Giza and Peru. Pottery fragments bearing markings have also been recorded among the site debris.
Knobbed granite casing blocks found at Abu Rawash’s pyramid
Key facts
- Debris around Djedefre’s pyramid includes limestone and red-granite casing stone; red granite was used in the lower exterior casing, not only in internal features.
- Chris Dunn photographed and measured a rose-red granite block with a knob-like projection and flat worked surfaces.
- The video compares these knobbed blocks with examples from Giza and Peru; this comparison is the presenter’s interpretation.
- Surveys recorded pottery fragments bearing markings among the debris, but the cited results do not establish their date.
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It is the location of the northernmost pyramid in Egypt (known as Lepsius Number One), the pyramid of Djedefre (also known as Radjedef) and around fifty ...
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At Abu Rawash, Redjedef started a pyramid about the size of the pyramid of Menkaure, but it was never completed. Granite blocks of its casing ...
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The Pyramid is made of limestone blocks. The external casing of the bottom masonry of the Pyramid was made of blocks of red granite. The basement perimeter ...
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When Petrie investigated he found a curved fragment thought to be from a pink granite sarcophagus in the burial chamber and the French-Swiss ...
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