thehereticpharaoh: Pyramidion, or pyramid cap of king Amenemhat…









thehereticpharaoh:

Pyramidion, or pyramid cap of king Amenemhat III, height 140 cm, basalt, from Dahshur - Giza, Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty. 

The pyramidion is a small pyramidal-shaped stone representing the benben or the primeval mountain, the first to emerge from the ocean at the creation of the world by the NTR Atum .. It´s decorated with a solar disc flanked by two cobras with outspread wings. The two eyes are to see the neferu, the beauty of Ra, as inscribed there in