Pyramid of Athribis

30.4300°N, 31.1000°E.

The pyramid of Athribis in Upper Egypt — modern Atrib, near Akhmim in Sohag Governorate — one of the small provincial step pyramids attributed to pharaoh Huni or Sneferu of the Third or early Fourth Dynasty, ~2600 BCE. Original base approximately 18 metres per side; original height around 11 metres on three or four stepped tiers. The structure is built of limestone blocks set in mud mortar with no internal substructure — no burial chamber, no entrance, no corridor — following the same template as the six other documented provincial pyramids of the same generation at Elephantine, Edfu, Naqada, Sinki, Zawyet el-Maiyitin, and El-Kula. Excavated by Egyptian and German missions through the twentieth century. Athribis is best known for the much later Ptolemaic temple complex of the lion-headed goddess Repyt, several centuries of monuments removed from the small pyramid that shares the site name.

A solid provincial pyramid in a town whose later religious architecture is so much more famous that the pyramid is rarely mentioned in the archaeological literature for the site.