Qakare Ibi
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| Aba, Iby, Kakare, Kakaure, Qaikare, Qakaure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Burial | Pyramid of Ibi 29°50′30″N 31°13′4″E / 29.84167°N 31.21778°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dynasty | Eighth Dynasty | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Qakare Ibi was an
Attestations
Qakare Ibi is attested on the 53rd entry of the
Pyramid complex
Qakare Ibi was buried in a small pyramid at Saqqara-South. It was discovered by Karl Richard Lepsius in the 19th century who listed it as the number XL in his pioneering list of pyramids.[6] The pyramid was excavated from 1929 until 1931 by Gustave Jéquier.[7]
Ibi's pyramid is the last built in Saqqara, located to the northeast of
The pyramid
Ibi's pyramid is not oriented to any cardinal point, being rather on a northwest–southeast axis. The edifice would have been around 31.5 m (103 ft) large and 21 m (69 ft) high with a slope of 53°7′ at the time of its construction.[2] The core of the pyramid was built with limestone blocks of local origin, most of which are now gone, probably reused in later constructions. As a result, the monument appears today as a 3 m (9.8 ft) high heap of mud and limestone chips in the sands of Saqqara. On some of the remaining blocks, inscriptions in red ink were found mentioning a chief of the Libyans, the meaning of which is unclear. It seems that even though the foundations for the outer casing of the pyramid were laid, the casing itself was never mounted.
Internal structures
On the north side of the edifice, Jéquier found an 8 m (26 ft) long limestone-clad corridor leading down with an inclination of 25° to a large granite portcullis. now missing. Today a large block of concrete protects the chamber.
On the west side of the burial chamber is a false door and a huge granite block on which once stood the sarcophagus of the king. On the east side there is a serdab for the statue of the Ka of the deceased.
Chapel
Adjacent to the east side of the pyramid is a small mudbrick chapel which served as temple for the cult of the dead king.[2] The entrance of the chapel is located on its north side. Inside the temple, immediately against the pyramid wall is an offering hall where Jequier found a stone washbasin as well as stele or a false door of which only the foundations remain. An alabaster tray and obsidian mortar tools were also discovered there.
The south part of the chapel is occupied by magazine rooms.
See also
- List of Egyptian pyramids
- List of megalithic sites
References
- ^ a b c Kim Ryholt: The Late Old Kingdom in the Turin King-list and the Identity of Nitocris, Zeitschrift für ägyptische, 127, 2000, p. 99
- ^ ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9, 2008, p. 302
- see pp. 68-69
- ISBN 978-0192804587
- ^ Jürgen von Beckerath: The Date of the End of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, JNES 21 (1962)
- ^ Karl Richard Lepsius: Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien, available online.
- ^ a b c d e Gustave Jéquier, La pyramide d'Aba, 1935
- ^ "Saqqara, City of the Dead: The Pyramid of Ibi" The Ancient Egypt Site Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ ISBN 3-8053-1142-7, pp. 203-204.
Bibliography
- Mark Lehner. The secret of the pyramids of Egypt, Orbis, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-572-01039-X, p. 164
- Christopher Theis: The Pyramids of the First Intermediate Period. After philological and archaeological sources (= studies of ancient Egyptian culture. Vol 39, 2010). pp. 321–339.
- Miroslav Verner. The Pyramids Universe Books, New 1998, ISBN 3-499-60890-1, pp. 415–416.