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A satellite pyramid is situated at the south-east corner of the
mortuary temple, the entrance on the northern side gives access
to the single chamber through a descending passage. It is
enclosed within its own perimeter wall and there were four
libation basins set into the surrounding courtyard pavement.

Two of Teti's queens had their own pyramids to the north of
his complex in a revival of Dynasty IV tradition. Iput was the
mother of Teti's son Pepi I and thought to be a daughter of Unas
Archaeologists suggest that her tomb was altered from a mastaba
to a small pyramid by her son, a conclusion reached by the fact
that although there was a small chapel on the northern side, there
was no entrance there, but a vertical shaft led to the burial
chamber from the second layer of the structure. A rough
limestone sarcophagus was found, containing fragments of a
cedar coffin and the skeleton of a middle-aged woman as well as
five limestone canopic jars, a headrest, necklace and bracelet and
a small tablet with the names of sacred oils among the debris of
model vessels and tools. On the eastern side of Iput's pyramid
there was a small mortuary temple with a chapel, court, a
chamber with three niches and an offering hall. In the western
wall of the offering hall was a limestone false door and an
inscribed granite altar naming the queen as the mother of Pepi I.

There are little remains of the other queen's pyramid,
belonging to Teti's consort khuit (Kawit) it ws first investigated

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