Red Pyramid Corbelled Roof

The red pyramid at dashur has.

Red pyramid corbelled roof.

It is located well above ground level in the core of the pyramid. Sneferu s red pyramid is the first sucesfull smooth sided pyramid and the third largest of egypt thought to have been built around 2590 bc. It is somewhat more elaborate than the eastern chapel of the red pyramid or the. The chapel built against the eastern face of the pyramid was finished hastily probably after the death of snofru.

In between djoser s step pyramid and the great pyramid of giza a king named sneferu made a name for himself as egypt s greatest ever pyramid builder. A corbel vault uses this technique to support the superstructure of a building s roof. The corbelled roof. The entrance is cut into the north face of the pyramid.

It is considered the largest of the three major pyramids located at the dahshur necropolis 40 km outside cairo near saqqara. A corbel arch is constructed by offsetting successive courses of stone or. In the southern wall which gives onto a short horizontal tunnel that takes us to the third and final chamber of the pyramid which has a corbelled roof 50 feet 15 m high. While one would think that the iconic 4th dynasty pyramids at giza were built near the end of egyptian civilization in fact the opposite is true.

Snefuru who took the throne in 2575 bc is credited with two large pyramids at dahshur a site just south of saqqara one of them is the red pyramid the world s first ever smooth sided pyramid. Visitors may enter the sequence of corridors and rooms that lead to the burial chamber and admire the dramatically tapering corbelled ceilings within. At the south west end of the chamber a short corridor leads to a further chamber with a corbelled roof which sits directly below the apex of the pyramid. The red pyramid is believed to have been sneferu s final resting place but the tomb itself was robbed out in antiquity.

The interior of the bent pyramid is off limits to visitors beings more. A descending passage leads to a chamber with a corbelled roof. Its corbelled roof goes up to a height of 14 67 m. The original height of the pyramid was approximately 343 feet while each side measured 722 feet.

Modern steps have been installed to ease the ascension to the opening which is 94 feet above the ground level and between 12 13 feet east of center. Now you enter the red pyramid for the first time. A corbel arch or corbeled corbelled arch is an arch like construction method that uses the architectural technique of corbeling to span a space or void in a structure such as an entranceway in a wall or as the span of a bridge.