Pyramidia (singular: pyramidion) are the capstones of ancient Egyptian pyramids.
Tips of obelisks, also called pyramidia, were not separate stones and are not included in this list.
Image | Dyn | Associated name(s) | Findspot | Current location | Material(s) | Deco | Base | Hgt | Ref |
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in cm | |||||||||
Old Kingdom (c. 2543 – 2120 BC) | |||||||||
![]() | 4 | Sneferu | Dashur, Red Pyramid | Dashur | Limestone | No | 157 ? | 100 ? | [1] [2] |
![]() | 4 | Khufu | Giza, Pyramid G1-d | Giza | Limestone | No | 111.8 | 70.9 | [3] |
4 | Wife of Menkaure | Giza, Pyramid G3-a | Limestone | No | 112.5 | 75 | [4] | ||
5 | Sahure | Abusir, Pyramid of Sahure | Known only from inscription | Limestone, gold | [5] | ||||
5 | Khentkaus II | Abusir, Pyramid of Khentkaus II | Black granite | [4] | |||||
6 | Merenre Nemtyemsaf I | Saqqara, Pyramid of Merenre | Known only from inscription | Black granite | [4] | ||||
6 | Udjebten | Saqqara, Pyramid of Udjebten | Known only from inscription | Stone, gold | [4] [6] | ||||
Middle Kingdom (c. 1980 – 1760 BC) | |||||||||
12 | Queen (?) of | Lisht, Pyramid 3 of Senusret's complex | Red granite | [7] | |||||
12 | Queen (?) of Senusret I | Lisht, Pyramid 5 of Senusret's complex | Red granite | [8] | |||||
![]() | 12 | Senusret II | El Lahun, Pyramid of Senusret II | London, Petrie Museum | Black granite | Yes | [9] [10] | ||
![]() | 12 | Amenemhat III | Dahshur, Black Pyramid (Pyramidion of Amenemhat III) | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Black granite | Yes | 185 | 140 | [11] [12] |
![]() | 12 | Amenemhat III | Hawara | London, Petrie Museum | Limestone | No | 23 | [13] [14] | |
![]() | 13 | Khendjer | South Saqqara, Pyramid of Khendjer | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Black granite | Yes | 140 | 130 | [15] [16] [17] |
![]() | 13 | Merneferre Ay | South Saqqara, Pyramid of Merneferre Ay | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Black granite | Yes | 83 | 85 | [18] [19] |
![]() | 13 | Southern South Saqqara pyramid | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Black granite | No | 156 | 145 (slp) | [16] [20] [21] | |
Second Intermediate Period (c. 1759 – 1539 BC) | |||||||||
![]() | 17 | Intef V | Dra' Abu el-Naga', Pyramid of Intef V | London, British Museum | Limestone | Yes | 34 | 22 | [22] [23] |
17 | Intef VI | Dra' Abu el-Naga', Pyramid of Intef VI | Limestone | Yes | [24] | ||||
17/18 | Ahmose [25] | Dra' Abu el-Naga' | Limestone | Yes | [26] | ||||
Image | Dyn | Associated name(s) | Findspot | Current location | Material(s) | Deco | Base | Hgt | Ref |
in cm | |||||||||
New Kingdom (c. 1539 – 1077 BC) | |||||||||
18 or earlier | Teti, lector-priest of Senisonb | Theban area ? | Oxford, Ashmolean Museum | Limestone | Yes | 31 | 40.5 (slp) | [27] | |
18 | Tetisheri | Abydos, Pyramid of Tetisheri | Limestone | Yes | [28] | ||||
![]() | 18 | Iniuia | Saqqara | Paris, Louvre | Red granite | Yes | 70 67.5 | 63 | [29] [30] [31] |
![]() | 18 | Ptahmose, High-Priest of Thutmose III | Saqqara ? | Berlin, Egyptian Museum | Gabbro | Yes | 43 41 | 39.5 | [32] [33] [34] |
![]() | 18 | Ahmose ? | Theban area ? | San Jose, Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum | Limestone | Yes | 23.2 | 36.3 | [35] |
18 | Meriré | Amarna | Berlin, Egyptian Museum | Limestone | Yes | 30 28 | 24 | [36] [37] | |
![]() | 18 ? | anonymous | Abydos | Brussels, Royal Museums of Art and History | Limestone | Yes | 25.7 23.5 | 35.7 | [38] [39] |
18 | Houy | Saqqara | Florence, National Archaeological Museum | Gray granite | Yes | 32 | 36 | [40] [41] | |
18 | Nedjem | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Sandstone | Yes | 33 | 43.5 | [42] [43] | ||
![]() | 18 | Amenhotep (Huy) | Saqqara | Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden | Red granite | Yes | 77 | 67 | [44] [45] |
18 | Amenemone | Memphis | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Limestone | Yes | 43.5 | 37 | [46] [47] | |
18 | anonymous | London, British Museum | Limestone | Yes | 50 | 48 | [48] [49] | ||
![]() | 18 | Ptahemwia | Saqqara | Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden | Limestone | Yes | 28 | 42 | [50] [51] |
![]() | 18 | Nebanon | Thebes | Munich, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst | Limestone | Yes | 46 | [52] | |
![]() | 18 | Imenemheb | Qurnet Murai | Paris, Louvre | Sandstone | Yes | 44.5 | 85.7 | [53] [54] |
18 | Pay | Memphis | Paris, Louvre | Limestone | Yes | 45 44.5 | 40 | [55] [56] | |
![]() | 18 | Kha | Deir el-Medina, Pyramid chapel of TT8 | Paris, Louvre | Sandstone | Yes | 49 | 83 | [57] [58] |
18 | Hori | Abu Tig | Seattle Art Museum | Limestone | Yes | 28.5 | 31.6 | [59] [60] | |
18 | Nakhtmin ? | Deir el-Medina | Limestone | No | 65 | 65 | [61] | ||
18 or later | Amarna, South Tombs Cemetery | Limestone | 24 20 | 35 | [62] | ||||
18/19 | Raia | Saqqara | Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum | Limestone | Yes | 37.4 31.3 | 33.3 | [63] [64] | |
![]() | 18/19 | Mahu, the Quarter Master | Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland | Limestone, plaster, paint | Yes | 18 | 36.5 | [65] [66] | |
18/19 | Ry (Roy), head of bowmen | Abydos | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Limestone | Yes | 48.5 | 49 | [67] [68] [69] | |
18/19 | anonymous | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Limestone | Yes | 34.5 | 61.5 | [70] [71] [72] | ||
18/19 | Neferhotep | Deir el-Medina | Limestone | Yes | 40 | 34 | [73] | ||
18/19 | Huy, Servant in the Place of Truth | Deir el-Medina | Sandstone | Yes | 35.6 | 35.6 | [74] [75] | ||
18/19 | Nornakht | Aniba | Sandstone | Yes | 30.7 27.8 | 28 | [76] [77] | ||
After 18 ? | Khonsou / Hori | Gurob | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Limestone | Yes | 31 | 40 | [78] [79] | |
19 | Khay (vizier) | Pyramid of Khay | Sheikh Abd el-Qurna | Granodiorite | [80] | ||||
![]() | 19 | Tia (princess) and | Saqqara, Pyramid of the two Tias | Lost c. 1792 AD | Red granite | Yes | 91 | 76 | [81] [82] [83] |
19 | Scribe Mose (Ms) | West-Thebes ? | Hildesheim, Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum | Limestone | Yes | 52 | [84] [85] [86] | ||
![]() | 19 | Minemheb | Thebes | Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum | Limestone | Yes | 34 | 47.5 | [87] [88] |
19 | Senres ? | Paris, Louvre | Limestone | Yes | 51 36.5 | 43.5 | [89] [90] | ||
| 19 | Nehi | Qurnet Murai | Florence, National Archaeological Museum | Sandstone | Yes | 61 | 57 | [91] [92] |
19 | Ptahemouia | Memphis | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Limestone | Yes | 55 44 | 38 | [93] [94] [95] | |
19 | Nebmeroutef Ry | Beit Khallaf | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Limestone | Yes | 24 | 20 | [96] [97] | |
19 | Messouy | Temple of Amada | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Limestone | Yes | 42 | 67 | [98] [99] | |
19 | anonymous | Kurna | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Faience | Yes | 37 | 26 | [100] [101] | |
19 | Anu (Aâouy) | Aniba | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Sandstone | Yes | 46.5 | 56 | [102] [103] [104] | |
19 | Amenhotep-Huy | Memphis | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Grey granite | Yes | 52 | 50 | [93] [105] [106] | |
19 | Kenro | El-Khokha, TT178 | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Faience | Yes | 39 | 28 | [107] [108] | |
19 | Tourobay | Deir el-Medina | St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum | Limestone | Yes | 17 | 26 | [109] | |
19 | Neferronpet | Saqqara | Liverpool, National Museums | Granite | Yes | 33 29 | 46 | [110] [111] | |
![]() | 19 | Hornefer | Deir el-Medina | London, British Museum | Sandstone | Yes | 33.5 | 40 | [112] [113] |
19 | Intj | Abydos | London, British Museum | Limestone | Yes | 40 | 40 | [114] [115] | |
![]() | 19 | Nebamun (Nebamontet) | Deir el-Medina | London, Petrie Museum | Limestone | Yes | 15 | 18.5 | [116] [117] |
![]() | 19 | anonymous | Gurob | London, Petrie Museum | Limestone | Yes | 24 | [118] [119] [120] | |
![]() | 19 | anonymous | Gurob | London, Petrie Museum | Limestone | Yes | 27.5 | [121] [122] [123] | |
19 | Pyay | Deir el-Medina | Paris, Louvre | Limestone | Yes | 35 | 37 | [124] [125] | |
![]() | 19 | Ramose | Deir el-Medina | Turin, Museo Egizio | Limestone | Yes | 57.5 | 70 | [126] [127] |
![]() | 19 | Khonsou | Deir el-Medina, chapel of tomb 1 | Turin, Museo Egizio | Limestone | Yes | 43 | 59 | [128] |
19 | Nebnefer / Neferhotep | Deir el-Medina | Limestone | Yes | 36 | 50 | [129] | ||
19 | Sennedjem | Deir el-Medina | Limestone | Yes | 61.5 | 61.5 | [130] | ||
19 ? | Neferrenpet ? | Deir el-Medina | Limestone | Yes | [131] | ||||
19 | Penmerenab ? | Deir el-Medina, chapel 322 | Yes | [132] | |||||
19 | Amenemope | Deir el-Medina, tomb 215 ? | Limestone | Yes | [133] | ||||
19 | Ptahmose | Saqqara | London, British Museum | Yes | [134] [135] | ||||
19 | Ramses II ? | Wadi es-Sebua | Yes | 45 | 75 | [136] | |||
19 | Thothermektef ? | Deir el-Medina, TT357 | Yes | 36 | 30 | [137] | |||
19 | [Messouy] | Temple of Amada | Sandstone | Yes | 48 | 75 | [138] | ||
19 | Pennout ? | Aniba | Sandstone | No | 45 40 | 65 | [139] [70] [140] | ||
19/20 | Meri-imen Ra-mesu | Western Thebes | Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum | Sandstone, paint | Yes | 36.4 30.1 | 44.6 | [141] [142] | |
19/20 | Hori | Deir el-Medina | Paris, Louvre | Sandstone | Yes | 38 37 | 41 | [143] [144] | |
19/20 ? | Abydos | Pennsylvania, Penn Museum | Limestone | Yes | [145] | ||||
![]() | 19/20 | Tjeper | Abydos | Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland | Black basalt | Yes | 25 | 25 | [146] [147] |
19/20 | Amenhotp | Abydos | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Sandstone | Yes | 42 | 45.5 | [148] [149] | |
19/20 | Amenemheb / Neferrenpet | Deir el-Medina | London, British Museum | Limestone | Yes | 27 24 | 36 | [150] [151] | |
19/20 | Khat | Deir el-Medina | London, British Museum | Limestone | Yes | 49 | 65 | [152] [153] | |
19/20 | Taya | Saqqara | Paris, Louvre | Limestone | Yes | 41 36.3 | 35 | [154] [155] | |
19/20 | Khonsouhetep | Paris, Louvre | Limestone | Yes | 36 | 40.2 | [156] [157] | ||
19/20 | Pagerger | Memphis | Paris, Louvre | Limestone | Yes | 25 | 24.5 | [158] [159] | |
![]() | 19/20 | Aamakt | Deir el-Medina, TT356 | Paris, Louvre | Limestone | Yes | 37 | 39.2 | [160] [161] [162] |
19/20 | Ipy | Deir el-Medina | Paris, Louvre | Limestone | Yes | 23 | 33 | [163] [164] | |
![]() | 19/20 | Tourbay | Deir el-Medina | Paris, Louvre | Limestone | Yes | 24.5 23 | 34 | [165] [166] [167] |
19/20 | Amenemope | Thebes | Vatican Museums | Limestone | Yes | 30 | 34 | [168] [169] | |
19/20 | Deir el-Medina, tomb 219 | Limestone | Yes | [170] | |||||
19/20 | Amenemouia ? | Deir el-Medina | Sandstone | Yes | [171] | ||||
19/20 | Amennakht Dydy ? | Deir el-Medina | Limestone | Yes | [172] | ||||
19/20 | Houy ? | Deir el-Medina, tomb 1336 | Limestone | Yes | [173] | ||||
19/20 ? | Deir el-Medina | Limestone | Yes | [174] | |||||
19/20 | Deir el-Medina | Limestone | Yes | 35–45 | 60–70 | [175] | |||
19/20 | Amennakht | Deir el-Medina, 1349 or 1343 | Limestone | Yes | [176] | ||||
20 | God's Adorer ʒst | Qift | London, British Museum | Limestone, plaster | Yes | 43 | 38.2 | [177] [178] | |
20 | Iry | Deir el-Medina | Limestone | Yes | 23 21 | 32 | [179] | ||
20 | Kaha | Deir el-Medina | Limestone | Yes | [180] | ||||
NK | Nebseny | Memphis | Paris, Louvre | Limestone | Yes | 40 | 53 | [181] [182] | |
NK | Paris, Louvre | Faience | Yes | 15.5 | 13.2 | [183] | |||
NK | Penmehet | Beit Khallaf | Berlin, Egyptian Museum | Limestone | Yes | 32.5 | 65 | [184] [185] [186] | |
NK ? | Bekenamun | English private collection | Limestone | Yes | 35.2 | 38.1 | [187] [188] | ||
NK ? | Harsiesi | Abydos | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Limestone | Yes | 23 | [189] [190] [191] | ||
NK ? | Ptahmose/ Paherpedjet | Abydos ? | Copenhague | Limestone | Yes | 35 | 37 | [192] | |
NK | Amenhotep | Florence, National Archaeological Museum | Limestone | Yes | 23 21 | 32 | [193] [194] | ||
NK | anonymous | Florence, National Archaeological Museum | Limestone | Yes | 14 12.5 | 38 | [195] [196] | ||
NK | anonymous | Heidelberg, Sammlung des Ägyptologischen Instituts | Sandstone | Yes | 46 | 69 | [197] | ||
NK | Mose (?) | Memphis | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Limestone | Yes | 48 41 | 60.5 | [198] [199] | |
NK | anonymous | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Limestone | Yes | 27 25 | 40.5 | [200] [201] | ||
NK | Amenemopet | Abydos | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Limestone | Yes | 32.5 | 53 | [202] [203] [204] | |
![]() | NK | Pauty | Saqqara | Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden | Limestone | Yes | 47 | 47 | [205] [206] |
NK | Tjanefer | Deir el-Medina, temple of Mentouhotep | London, British Museum | Black basalt | Yes | 22 20 | 24 | [207] [208] | |
![]() | NK | Buqentef | Deir el-Medina | London, British Museum | Limestone | Yes | 28 19.5 | 66 | [209] [210] [211] |
![]() | NK ? | Djehuty (Thuti) | Deir el-Medina, temple of Mentouhotep | London, British Museum | Limestone | Yes | 11.4 | 18 | [212] [213] |
NK | anonymous | Deir el-Medina | Turin, Museo Egizio | Limestone | Yes | 15 | 20 | [214] | |
NK | anonymous | Gurnah | Voronezh | Sandstone | Yes | [215] [216] | |||
NK | Pached ? | Deir el-Medina | Limestone | Yes | [217] | ||||
NK | Deir el-Medina | Limestone | Yes | [218] | |||||
NK | Deir el-Medina | Limestone | Yes | [219] | |||||
NK | Deir el-Medina | Limestone | [220] | ||||||
NK | Deir el-Medina | Limestone | [221] | ||||||
NK | Aniba | Sandstone | Yes | 40 | [222] [223] | ||||
NK | Roro | Deir el-Medina | Leipzig University | Limestone | Yes | 26 | 54 | [224] | |
NK | Penbouy ? | Deir el-Medina | Yes | [225] | |||||
NK | Tiro ? | Deir el-Medina | Yes | [226] | |||||
NK | [227] | ||||||||
NK | Panufer | Thebes | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Granite | [228] | ||||
NK | Abydos | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Yes | [229] | |||||
Image | Dyn | Associated name(s) | Findspot | Current location | Material(s) | Deco | Base | Hgt | Ref |
in cm | |||||||||
Third Intermediate Period of Egypt (c. 1077 – 722 BC) | |||||||||
~21 | Nestaouat | Memphis | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Limestone | Yes | 31.5 30 | 29.5 | [230] [231] | |
![]() | 21 | Bennebensekhaf | Thebes | Paris, Louvre | Limestone | Yes | 48 | 47.6 | [232] [233] |
TIP/LP | anonymous | Liverpool, National Museums | Wood, gesso, paint | Yes | 14 12 | 25 | [234] | ||
Late Period (c. 722 – 332 BC) | |||||||||
![]() | 26 | Iufaa | Abydos | NYC, Metropolitan Museum of Art | Limestone, paint | Yes | 27.2 26.4 | 35.5 | [235] [236] |
![]() | 26 | Nesnubhotep | Abydos | London, Petrie Museum | Limestone | Yes | 35 | [237] [238] [239] | |
26 | Wedjahor | Abydos | London, British Museum | Limestone | Yes | 48.5 | 58 | [240] [241] | |
![]() | 26 | Pedesi (Petisis) | Abydos | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Limestone | Yes | [242] [243] [244] | ||
26 | Khepri | Abydos | Trieste, Civico Museo di Storia Naturale | Limestone | Yes | 23.5 | 37 | [245] [246] | |
![]() | 26 | Nesipakashuty, Vizier | Abydos | Glasgow, Burrell Collection | Limestone | Yes | 25.6 21.9 | 38.5 | [247] [248] |
26 | Hr-zi-ist | Yes | [249] [250] | ||||||
26 ? | Esnubhotp | Abydos | Cairo, Egyptian Museum | Stone | Yes | 40 | [251] [252] | ||
26 ? | Djedhor | Abydos | Paris, Louvre | Limestone | Yes | 39.4 38.3 | 35.5 | [253] [254] | |
30? | Abydos | Avignon, Calvet Museum | [255] | ||||||
![]() | 30 or later | Rer and Nitokris | Abydos | St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum | Limestone, paint | Yes | 36.5 | 44 | [256] [257] [258] [259] |
Late | Horemakhbit | Abydos | Paris, Louvre | Limestone | Yes | 36 | 34 | [260] [261] | |
Late | Padipahernefer | Abydos ? | Paris, Louvre | Limestone | Yes | 29 | 33 | [262] | |
Late | Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland | Limestone | [263] | ||||||
Late | Nespemede | Abydos | Destroyed in WWII ? | Yes | 26 | [264] [265] | |||
Late | Pakhnum | Abybos | Durham University | Limestone | Yes | 25.2 25 | 35.7 | [266] [267] [268] | |
Late | Harhotep, Head Dancer of Bastet | [269] [270] | |||||||
Unknown date | |||||||||
Abydos | Abydos ? | Gray granite | No | 47 35 | 45 | [271] | |||
Abydos | Gray granite | No | 62 41 | 49 | [272] | ||||
Image | Dyn | Associated name(s) | Findspot | Current location | Material(s) | Deco | Base | Hgt | Ref |
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