Description
Located at Saqqara and excavated by Meriette in the 1850s, it has since been engulfed by sand and may be closed; in one of the funeral chambers ( accessible by a sloping shaft and low passageway), the star-patterned blocks of its vaulted roof have slipped inwards. Although most of the VI Dynasty kings who followed Teti chose to be burried at South Saqqara, several of their courtiers were interred in a "street of tombs" beside his pyramid, which was linked to the Serapeum by an Avenue of Sphinxes ( now sanded over).
