Pistol Wrote:



>The capstone of a pyramid
> is in fact a scaled down miniature of the pyramid
> it's intended to be placed atop (Lehner 1999),
> clearly a relation exists between a pyramids
> capstone and the sacred benben stone of Heliopolis
> since it was known to the Old Kingdom Egyptians as
> the benben-et (Verner 2002).
The pyramidion of the Satellite Pyramid of Khufu is one of the few known pyramidions of the Old Kingdom. Its discovery was reported by Hawass, with an appendix by Dorner in the following paper:

Hawass, Z., The Discovery of the Satellite Pyramid of Khufu (GI–d), Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson, Department of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1996

Whilst it is true that it in general it is a scaled down miniature, the Figure 7 provided by Dorner makes clear that it is a totally different shape. The paper is available on Digital Giza here: [giza.fas.harvard.edu]

>This name benben-et
> was also used to describe the pyramid shape atop
> Obelisks, but a relief discovered on the causeway
> of Sahure's pyramid complex depicts a celebratory
> procession of the King, dancers, singers and
> workman pulling a sled carrying the benben-et of
> his pyramid to his pyramid. Unfortunately the
> depiction of the sled and benben-et had been
> destroyed, but the hieroglyphs in registers
> describe both.
>
For those interested to see this scene, it is depicted in plates 11 and 12 of the Hawass paper linked above and is discussed briefly on pp109-110.