Seila Pyramid (Egypt)
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Name (Hebrew)
פירמידת סיילה (מצרים)
Name (Latin)
Seila Pyramid (Egypt)
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
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MARC
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Wikidata:
Q688720
Library of congress:
sh2019102967
Sources of Information
- Work cat: Excavations at the Seila Pyramid and Fag El-Gamous Cemetery, 2020:CIP title page (Seila Pyramid) galley (The eastern edge of the Fayoum is where the Seila Pyramid and Fag elGamous cemetery are located; the eastern border of this area is known as Gebel el-Rus, the ridge on which the Seila Pyramid sits; built by Snefru at the dawn of the 4th Dynasty; before its excavation, locally known as el-Qalah, meaning "the fortress," though it has since come to be called Harem Seila, or the Seila Pyramid; it stood six miles straight west of the Meidum Pyramid; when Grenfell and Hunt excavated in the nearby cemeteries, they wrote that they were "south of the 'pyramid' of Sêla, an Old Empire mastaba." Stadelmann speaks of Seila as one of the most curious of the small step pyramids; felt it was built even before the Meidum pyramid; the pyramid was at times proposed to be the burial place of Huni or Hetepheres; January 1981, the first sustained and systematic excavation was undertaken by a joint University of California, Berkeley-Brigham Young University (byu) team--The Lesko Excavation)
- Explore Fayoum, website, viewed October 4, 2019:PHARAONIC MONUMENTS (Seila Pyramid ; The pyramid at Seila (Silah or Sila); located to the North Eastern part of the Fayoum city; to the south of Kom el-Hammam on the east of the Fayoum Oasis near to the necropolis of Maidum; The step-pyramid of Silah is one of a group of similar structures scattered throughout Egypt (Elephantine, Edfu, Hierakonpolis, Ombos, Abydos, Zawyet el Meitin and Silah) which have mystified archaeologists and deified the traditional definition aligned to Egyptian Pyramids since early times; no internal chambers have been found)
- Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, 2012, viewed via Credo, October 4, 2019:Seila (a site bordering the Faiyum territory of Egypt, south of el-LISHT; pyramide rected on a desert spur at Seila; probably built by HUNI (r. 2599-2575 B.c.e.); constructed out of limestone blocks; designed with four steps and was 99 square feet at the base)
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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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