Descending Corridor
There is a depression in the middle of the east
wall of the pyramid core.
Due to the location, Egyptologists believe that
this was a niche that might have held a false
door, in front of which would have been an altar,
all a part of an offering hall.
In the area near the columns, fragments of statues
of three of Djedefre's sons and two of his daughters
were discovered, along with a possible limestone
sphinx. If this was indeed a sphinx, it would probably
be the earliest know form of this statuary.
Like a number of pyramids in Egypt, this one used
part of a rock outcropping that was reshaped as
part of the core. The remainder of the core consists
of local limestone blocks.
There remains about fifteen horizontally laid layers
of the limestone core, but very little of the fine,
pink granite casing is left.