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Reisner, there was a false door in the offering hall's west wall.
However, because of statuary fragments, and the fact that the
temple was not immediately adjacent to the pyramid, scholars
such as Maragioglio and Rinaldi rejected the idea of a false door,
instead seeing a statue of the ruler standing in its stead. They do
believe that a false door existed, but that it stood on a small, pink
granite platform in front of the pyramid's east wall. In
Maragioglio and Rinaldi's view, it would have at first been easily
accessible from the east wing of the pyramid's courtyard, before
additional rooms were built in the area.

A limestone altar and fragments, including a head, chest, lap,
knees and shins of a seated statue of Menkaure, rendered in pink
granite were found in the five, two story magazines that form a
northwestern part of the mortuary temple. This statue was
perhaps meant to be the centerpiece of this entire complex.
Originally it stood at the back of a tall and narrow east-west hall
at the end of the center axis of the temple, so that the king looked
across the open country, through the entrance hall, and down the
line of the causeway to the land of the living. The southwest part
of the temple remained uncompleted.

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