Satellite Pyramid of Djedkare-Isesi

29.8508°N, 31.2205°E.

The satellite pyramid of Djedkare-Isesi at South Saqqara, immediately south of the main pyramid of pharaoh Djedkare-Isesi (r. ~2414–2375 BCE). Original base 15.5 metres per side; original height around 13 metres at a steep slope. Excavated by the Egyptian Antiquities Service in 1945 and re-examined by Czech and French missions through the late twentieth century. The structure follows the standard Old Kingdom satellite-pyramid template: a small ritual pyramid attached to the south face of the principal royal pyramid, with a small granite-lined chamber and a shallow descending corridor but no human burial, no canopic equipment, and no funerary goods. Djedkare's satellite pyramid is one of the better-preserved examples of the type from the Fifth Dynasty, with its substructure intact and accessible.

A small ritual pyramid attached to its principal at the standard Old Kingdom architectural offset, in a complex whose central pyramid was the first royal monument of its century to abandon the Abusir dynastic clustering.