Queens Pyramid of Senusret III (6)

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Queens' pyramid 6 of Senusret III at Dahshur, sixth of seven small queens' pyramids around the main pyramid of pharaoh Senusret III. Construction date approximately 1850 BCE. Original base approximately 17 metres per side; original height around 14 metres. Excavated by Dieter Arnold for the Metropolitan Museum from 1990 onward. The substructure preserved a small vaulted burial chamber and an emptied sandstone sarcophagus; the canopic equipment had been removed in antiquity but a single inscribed alabaster vessel fragment naming queen Neferthenut was recovered from the chapel debris. The mortuary chapel produced relief fragments showing the queen offering. Neferthenut's family relationship to Senusret III is undocumented — she is named exclusively from this pyramid.

A queen's pyramid for a royal woman whose name survives on a single broken vessel and whose connection to the king who built her tomb cannot be reconstructed from any other source.