Perring, John Shae; Howard-Vyse, Richard William Howard: Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into upper Egypt, and Appendix (Band 3): Appendix (London, 1842)

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some places nearly 40 feet high. About half of it is constructed
with masonry.

Fig. 1 is a plan of the Pyramid and of the hills upon which
it is placed.

Fig. 2, Plan of excavation, wherein the inclined entrance-
passage and the apartment have been formed.

Fig. 3, Section through the apartment, and along entrance-
passage looking west.

Fig. 4, Section through apartment looking south.

A view of the Pyramid from Kerdassy, looking across the
plain of sand, is also given ; and also a view taken from near
the south-western angle.

A valley to the northward extends to the Natron Lakes, and
is the usual road of the western pilgrims from the Barbary
coast. Mummy-pits and tombs were found in this valley, but
they did not contain any inscriptions; the inhabitants of the
neighbouring village, however, were said to have taken from
them a variety of small articles, similar to those in the tombs
at Gizeb, and mummy-cases inscribed with hieroglyphics. At
the edge of the hills, on the northern side of the valley, are
traces of an antient square building. It is called by the Arabs
El Deir (the convent), a name, however, which is often indis-
criminately applied by them to antient ruins.

Upon a projecting knoll, on the eastern side of the mountain,
and near the village of Abou Roash, are also the remains of a
building of considerable magnitude and solidity. It is composed
of crude bricks, made of Nile earth, without any intermixture
of straw. Small sepulchral grottoes at the bottom of inclined
passages have been roughly hewn in the side of the mountain ;
they contain sarcophagi, which are without any ornament or
inscription.

Upon a plain now covered with sand, between this place and
the village of Kerdassy, the site of a considerable town may
be traced. The name of it has perished, together with its edi-
fices ; but, from the apparent antiquity of the Pyramid in ques-
tion, it was probably Cochoma, mentioned by Africanus as having
existed under the fourth king of Manetho's first dynasty, Venc-
phes (Enephes, or Venephres), son of Cencenes, " for that
monarch is said to have erected a pyramid near the town of
Cochone (Cochoma, or Choe)."(i

4 Sec ltemarks upon tlic Map.