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Kingdom (now in the Petrie Museum, London).
Another innovation at Meidum is the advent of the satellite
pyramid, the destroyed remains were found on the southern side
of the structure. On the eastern side is a small limestone offerings
chapel, discovered by Petrie in 1891, the first to be built on the
eastern side of the terrace and probably a fore-runner to later
larger mortuary temples. The chapel consisted of a vestibule and
a courtyard with a central altar and two tall stelae, which are still
in situ. If they had been inscribed the stelae would have given the
name of the pyramid's owner. The pyramid and temple were
contained within an enclosure of high limestone walls. The
Meidum pyramid also had the new feature of a causeway almost
200m long; which probably ended in a valley temple which so far
has not been discovered.
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