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.‫القراسيم ي المجموعة الهرمية‬
‫وصررد شرريد " مرررى – ام – رع" رمرري إلررى الجنررو الؽرسرري مررم المجموعررة‬
‫الهرميرة للملرأ " أسيسري" ا وصرد ع رر سردا ا الهررم علرى تراسو أتقرم صرنعي مرم‬
‫ محفوية جيداا لشا متوسط القامة لديي صلة‬،‫الجراني الأسود ووجد سدا لي موميا‬

.‫شعر جانسية‬
Pyramid of Merenre:

Merenre (Nemtyemsaf) was the son of Pepy I, who came to
the throne at a young age and reigned for only a few years before
he was succeeded by his younger brother, Pepy II. We know that
Merenre must have reigned for at least a period of nine years.
Possibly in a co-regency with his father. He is reported by the
contemporary biographer Weni, a Governor of Upper Egypt
during Merenre's reign, to have visited Aswan in his ninth reignal
year to receive a group of southern chieftains. The remains of
Merenre's pyramid lie to the west of the pyramid of Djedkare
Isesi at South Saqqara, but it is badly destroyed, and there is now
little to see.

Perring investigated the monument in the 1830s and
reported casing blocks of white limestone, but these are no longer
visible and the whole of the ruins are now covered with drifted
sand. The Brugsch brothers at Gaston Maspero's request, entered
the pyramid in 1880 and so made a second discovery of the
hieroglyphic inscriptions known as the 'Pyramid Texts'. (The first
example had been found in the Pyramid of Pepi I in the same

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