Decorated pyramid
Pyramid of Unas. The last king of the 5th dynasty.
Unas pyramid is the first since Djoser to be decorated. Around the sarcophagus, the walls are lined with white alabaster incised and painted to represent a reed-mat and wood-frame enclosure. The basalt sarcophagus still in place.
The ceiling had golden stars on a blue background. Walls in the burial chamber, antechamber and section of the horizontal passage are covered with vertical columns of carved hieroglyphs. The earliest example of the Pyramid Texts.
5th dynasty, Saqqara
Decorated pyramid
Pyramid of Unas. The last king of the 5th dynasty.
Unas pyramid is the first since Djoser to be decorated. Around the sarcophagus, the walls are lined with white alabaster incised and painted to represent a reed-mat and wood-frame enclosure. The basalt sarcophagus still in place.
The ceiling had golden stars on a blue background. Walls in the burial chamber, antechamber and section of the horizontal passage are covered with vertical columns of carved hieroglyphs. The earliest example of the Pyramid Texts.
5th dynasty, Saqqara