The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 390
In the second pyramid a part ofthe casing yet remains. In these it is impossible to see the interiorconstruction of the stone work. But some of the small ruined pyra-mids at Gizeh consist of several steps, each of several courses of stone-work in height, instead of the usual form of four sides… … The masonry of the pyramids of Abousir and Saccara is very in-ferior to that of the pyramids of Gizeh—in all of these the step con-struction is clearly seen, and also that the steps are separate wallsbuilt against each other. The pyramid at Merdoon, again, exhibitsthis mode of construction. In its…
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