G3-c (also G3c, G3 c, GIIIc) is one of the three pyramid companions

Pyramid of Menkaure The pyramid of Menkaure is the smallest of the three main pyramids of the Giza pyramid complex, located on the Giza Plateau in the southwestern outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. It is thought to have been built to serve as the tomb of the Fourth Dynast ...

. It is located on the south side of the Menkaure pyramid in the

Giza Necropolis The Giza pyramid complex ( ar, مجمع أهرامات الجيزة), also called the Giza necropolis, is the site on the Giza Plateau in Greater Cairo, Egypt that includes the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Pyramid of Khafre, and the Pyramid ...

. It is the westernmost of the three pyramids of the queens. The

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archaeologist

George Andrew Reisner George Andrew Reisner Jr. (November 5, 1867 – June 6, 1942) was an American archaeologist of Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Palestine. Biography Reisner was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. His parents were George Andrew Reisner I and Mary Elizabet ...

speculated that either this pyramid or G3-b may have been meant for Menkaure's half-sister, Shepsetkau, the daughter of

Meresankh III Queen Meresankh III was the daughter of Hetepheres II and Prince Kawab and a granddaughter of the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu. She was the wife of King Khafre. Hetepheres also provided her daughter with a black granite sarcophagus decorated with pal ...

and

Khafre Khafre (also read as Khafra and gr, Χεφρήν Khephren or Chephren) was an ancient Egyptian King (pharaoh) of the 4th Dynasty during the Old Kingdom. He was the son of Khufu and the successor of Djedefre. According to the ancient histori ...

. The pyramid was built during the

Fourth Dynasty of Egypt The Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt (notated Dynasty IV) is characterized as a " golden age" of the Old Kingdom of Egypt. Dynasty IV lasted from to 2494 BC. It was a time of peace and prosperity as well as one during which trade with othe ...

, presumably for one of the wives of

Menkaure Menkaure or Menkaura (; 2550 BC - 2503 BC) was a pharaoh, king of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt during the Old Kingdom of Egypt, Old Kingdom. He is well known under his Hellenization, Hellenized names Mykerinos ( by Herodotus), in turn Latinisat ...

. The surface of the pyramid is stepped, consisting of four platforms that decrease toward the top. The pyramid's base is square, and its height is .Verner (2007), p. 463

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* (Note: This is the second unpublished follow-up to Reisner's work ''A History of the Giza Necropolis'' Vol. I, published by

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Pyramid G3-c at Digital Giza
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