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What (who) is pyramidion - definition

CAPSTONE OF AN EGYPTIAN PYRAMID OR OBELISK
  • Pyramidion from the tomb of the priest Rer in Abydos, Egypt. [[Hermitage Museum]]

Pyramidion         
·noun The small pyramid which crowns or completes an Obelisk.
Pyramidion         
A pyramidion (plural: pyramidia) is the uppermost piece or capstone of an Egyptian pyramid or obelisk. Speakers of the Ancient Egyptian language referred to pyramidia as benbenetErmann, Grapow, Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache 1, 459.
Pyramidal         
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  • [[Borobudur]], [[Central Java]], [[Indonesia]].
  • Dotō, Stupa of Ōno-dera Temple, [[Sakai]], [[Osaka Prefecture]], Japan.
  • [[Pyramid of Hellinikon]]
  • Prasat Thom temple at [[Koh Ker]], [[Cambodia]]
  • [[Louvre Pyramid]] (Paris, France)
  • Las Vegas, Nevada]]
  • [[Oscar Niemeyer]]'s design for a museum in [[Caracas]]
  • A diagram showing the various components of Eastern North American platform mounds
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  • [[Pyramid of the Moon]], [[Teotihuacan]]. Built between AD 100 and 450.
  • Memphis]], Tennessee
  • [[Pyramid of Cestius]] in Rome, Italy
  • [[Transamerica Pyramid]] in San Francisco, California
  • Sunway Pyramid in [[Subang Jaya]] is the mall that has an Egyptian-inspired Pyramid with a lion designed [[Sphinx]].
  • The central part of the "[[Tama-Re]]" village, as seen from the air
  • Ji'an]], Northeastern China
  • [[Walter Pyramid]] in [[Long Beach, California]]
STRUCTURE WHOSE SHAPE IS ROUGHLY THAT OF A PYRAMID IN THE GEOMETRIC SENSE
Pyramids; Pyramidal; Paddle pyramid; Paddling pyramid; Spanking pyramid; Pyrimids; 1st pyramid; Piramid; Mythical and miracle power of pyramids
·adj ·same·as Tetragonal.
II. Pyramidal ·noun One of the carpal bones. ·see Cuneiform, ·noun, 2 (b).
III. Pyramidal ·adj Of or pertaining to a pyramid; in the form of a a pyramid; pyramidical; as, pyramidal cleavage.

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Pyramidion

A pyramidion (plural: pyramidia) is the uppermost piece or capstone of an Egyptian pyramid or obelisk. Speakers of the Ancient Egyptian language referred to pyramidia as benbenet  and associated the pyramid as a whole with the sacred benben stone. During Egypt's Old Kingdom, pyramidia were generally made of diorite, granite, or fine limestone, then covered in gold or electrum; during the Middle Kingdom and through the end of the pyramid-building era, they were built from granite. A pyramidion was "covered in gold leaf to reflect the rays of the sun"; during Egypt's Middle Kingdom pyramidia were often "inscribed with royal titles and religious symbols".

Very few pyramidia have survived into modern times. Most of those that remain are made of polished black granite, inscribed with the name of the pyramid's owner. Four pyramidia – the world's largest collection – are housed in the main hall of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Among them are the pyramidia from the so-called Black Pyramid of Amenemhat III at Dahshur and of the Pyramid of Khendjer at Saqqara.: 115 

A badly damaged white Tura limestone pyramidion, thought to have been made for the Red Pyramid of Sneferu at Dahshur, has been reconstructed and is on open-air display beside that pyramid; it presents a minor mystery, however, as its angle of inclination is steeper than that of the edifice it was apparently built to surmount.