Satellite Pyramid of Sahure

29.8973°N, 31.2035°E.

The satellite pyramid of Sahure at Abusir, immediately south of the main pyramid of pharaoh Sahure (r. ~2487–2475 BCE). Original base 15.7 metres per side; original height around 13 metres at a steep slope. Excavated by Ludwig Borchardt for the German Oriental Society between 1907 and 1908. The structure follows the standard Fifth-Dynasty satellite-pyramid template: a small ritual pyramid with a granite-lined chamber and a shallow descending corridor, no human burial, no canopic equipment, and no funerary goods. Sahure's main pyramid complex preserves the earliest known relief programme depicting royal sea-faring expeditions to the Levant and Punt — over 100 metres of carved limestone walls in the mortuary temple — making the satellite pyramid part of a documentary unit far larger than its physical size.

A small ritual pyramid attached to the main pyramid of the king whose mortuary temple reliefs are the earliest visual record of Egyptian transoceanic trade.