Satellite Pyramid GIII-b
Description: Pyramid GIII-b is the middle of the three satellite pyramids of the Pyramid of Menkaure. The design features of the Satellite Pyramid suggest that its builders originally planned to build a stepped pyramid, but for some reason the construction was not completed. For the first time, the entrance to the Pyramid was cleared and described in 1837 by Colonel Howard Vyse, together with the engineer and archaeologist John Shae Perring, who managed to find a granite sarcophagus in the burial chamber, the remains of the bones of a young woman and fragments of a rotten, presumably wooden coffin. No inscriptions or sculptures were found in the Pyramid, except for a few quarry signs inscribed by the builders in red ocher on one of the slabs that make up the vault of the chamber, among which was the cartouche of Pharaoh Menkaure. Pyramid GIII-b is the only one of the three satellite pyramids of the Pyramid of Menkaure, the burial chamber of which was cased.Alternative names: Pyramid of Menkaure's Queen II
Lepsius No: 11
Type: True Pyramid
Location: Giza Plateau
Country: Egypt
