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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Present Base, about - 270 feet.

Height.....80 feet.

PYRAMID No. 7 IN THE MAP,

Is a small Pyramid, about 100 feet from the north-eastern
angle of No. 6. It is entirely ruined, and the greatest part of
the materials have been taken away.

Present Base, about - - - - 140 feet.

Height.....27 feet.

Top.....70 feet.

PYRAMID No. 8 IN THE MAP.

It is named by the Arabs, " Haram e Syadeen," the Pyramid
of the Hunters, for which its situation may be supposed to
account.

This Pyramid, and No. 6, are on the northern edge of a
valley leading to the Faioum, on the southern side of which
No. 9, and the Mustabet el Faraoon, are placed.5

The present appearance of this Pyramid is that of a square
heap of rubbish.

Near it are the fragments of a former casing of stone from
the Arabian mountains, and also broken pieces of granite.

A causeway runs obliquely into the valley to the southward of
No. 6, and near a square enclosure, formed with Avails of crude
brick.

Present Base, about - - - - 240 feet.
Height.....87 feet.

PYRAMID No. 9 IN THE MAP.

It is called " Haram el Mustabet," from being placed near the
building known by the name of Mustabet el Faraoon.

It is built in degrees, and with small stones, and both in the
material, and its present condition, resembles No. 8, on the oppo-
site side of the valley.

1 The roads leading from the Faioum are often distinguished by Pyramids.
Mr. Perring, however, does not consider that any connexion existed between
the Pyramids and the roads, but that they were so placed merely because the
entrances to the valley of the Nile afforded appropriate situations for their
erection.