On the platform
 

This is a close up from the same position as the previous picture. As you can see, the platform once had a pavement. On it stood the central feature of the complex: the solid "mastaba" of which you can here see the north-eastern corner. It was surrounded by columned halls. (The lower end of the picture is formed by the northern side wall of the platform).

This is a close up of the same north-eastern corner of the "mastaba", but now taken from the east. As you can see, it now consists of a heap of stones without any discernable structure.
In the forefront are two stone bases for columns. The rectangular stone on the left one does not belong here: the columns that were used in this complex were octagonal.

This is the south-western corner of the "mastaba": exactly opposite the previous picture. Here you see some of the octagonal columns. Like their wooden precursors, they were loosely placed on cylindrical stone bases.
The piece of a column in the forefront has a considerable inclination to the left, suggesting that it originally did not belong on this particular spot. Most of the stumps are rather casually placed on various bases to recreate an image of the original structure.
 

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