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Plan of the lower temple and the lower causeway of the Bent Pyramid with transportation road (DAIKairo, AegArOn, Salma Khamis, T. Gutmann)
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In autumn 2010 and spring 2011 German Archaeological Institute, Cairo and the Free University of Berlin undertook a small test excavation in the so-called workmen's village south of the Red Pyramid. Further research was done on the lower causeway of the Bent Pyramid. A detailed study of the pottery resulted in the dating of the two building phases...
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... dismantling the lower temple of the Bent Pyramid a date in the New Kingdom could be ascertained. In the excavation trench, just 1.00-1.50 m under the present surface, a transportation road constructed from fragments of limestone blocks was discovered 6 . It is situated immediately to the south of the lower causeway, but on a much higher level ( Fig. 1), namely at about 5.00-5.50 m above the floor of the lower causeway. Several pottery sherds were recovered from between the blocks of this sledgeway. Fortunately the pottery showed unequivocal characteristics which allow to assign them to the New Kingdom period (Fig. 2 a-c). Blue painted pottery is the most characteristic ceramic ...
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... reliefs at their place and many of the smaller fragments were found scattered in the temple. Fakhry found and published about 300 reliefs and relief fragments and made an attempt to reconstruct of the scenes 19 . It was extremely fortunate that it was possible to discover about 50 more relief fragments which were reused to construct the sledgeway (Fig. 1) which served as a road for the masons in the New Kingdom to transport the heavy stone blocks from the temple 20 ...
