Plunderings and Stone Robberies
The building was looted and experienced stone robberies, common for pyramid complexes. The unfinished form with the flat roof offered looters a simple entry, as they could dig into the substructure from the easily accessible deck. The stone robbery and the lootings were apparently professionally organized, as residues were found in a workshop in the pyramid corpus. Looting possibly began in the First Intermediate Period and the stone robbery followed in the late New Kingdom, the Late Period, the reign by the Roman Empire and the Arabic Middle Ages right through the 19th century. Materials stolen from the pyramid complex could be found in nearby shaft tombs. The temple area remained comparatively unaffected, as it was mainly composed of less valuable adobes.
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