Satellite Pyramid of Neferirkare

29.8946°N, 31.2022°E.

The satellite pyramid of Neferirkare at Abusir, immediately south of the main pyramid of pharaoh Neferirkare Kakai (r. ~2475–2455 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 in the 1900s and re-examined by the Czech Institute of Egyptology under Miroslav Verner from the 1980s onward. 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. The Czech excavations recovered the Abusir Papyri from the main mortuary temple — the largest single archive of Old Kingdom administrative documents ever found, recording the daily operations of the royal cult.

A small ritual pyramid attached to the main pyramid whose mortuary temple produced the most complete record of how an Old Kingdom royal cult was actually run, day by day.