Seila Pyramid (Egypt)
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Name (Hebrew)
פירמידת סיילה (מצרים)
Name (Latin)
Seila Pyramid (Egypt)
Name (Arabic)
פירמידת סיילה (מצרים)
Other forms of name
Harem Seila (Egypt)
Sêla Pyramid (Egypt)
Sila Pyramid (Egypt)
Silah Pyramid (Egypt)
See Also From tracing topical name
Egypt Antiquities
Pyramids Egypt
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q688720
Library of congress:
sh2019102967
Sources of Information
- Work cat: Excavations at the Seila Pyramid and Fag El-Gamous Cemetery, 2020:
- Explore Fayoum, website, viewed October 4, 2019:
- Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, 2012, viewed via Credo, October 4, 2019:
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Wikipedia description:
The pyramid of Seila is one of a group of seven small step pyramids which are very similar to one another, along with the Edfu South pyramid, the pyramid of Elephantine, the pyramid of El-Kula, the pyramid of Naqada, the pyramid of Zawyet el-Maiyitin, and the pyramid of Sinki. These pyramids were all built far from the major centres of Egypt and very little is known about them. The pyramid is located on an outcrop between the Faiyum Oasis and the Nile Valley, about 6 km north of the motorway from Wasta to Faiyum. Its builder may have been Snefru, the founder of the Fourth Dynasty. It was discovered in 1889/1890 by Flinders Petrie and revisited in 1898 by Ludwig Borchardt.
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