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H.'s description is right, whether we suppose that the whole pyramid was planned and carried out at once (cf. Petrie, u. s. p. 163, for a discussion of this question), or that a pyramid grew with the length of its builder's reign, being continually extended. This ‘accretion’ theory of Lepsius is now in favour again. In either case the ‘step formation’ must come first, and then the ‘filling up of the angles’ (ἐξεποιήθη).

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