Siaspiqa

Royal family No member of Siaspiqa's family has been identified with certainty. The archaeologists Dows Dunham and Laming Macadam conjectured that queen Piankhqewqa, buried in pyramid Nuri 29, may have been his consort. a heart-scarab The stela, the top of which was originally coated with golf leaf, depicts Osiris enthroned with Isis and Anubis while Siaspiqa's is shown adoring the god. Another granite offering table likely originating from the chapel of Nuri 4, was discovered in the Coptic church Nuri 100, where it was used as construction material. The church doorway and stair housed two further granite offering stands with the cartouches of the king. These objects are now in the National Museum of Sudan, Khartoum.

His tomb, the 4th pyramid of Nuri, was excavated in 1917 under the aegis of a joint Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition. These works have yielded at least 11 fragmentary faience shawabtis The same excavations also produced a beryl cylinder, as well as golden beaded discs, pieces of gold foil, a gold rosette and two uninscribed gold finger rings, all of which might have belonged to Siaspiqa. A separate excavation undertaken in 1922 unearthed a gold plaque part of a foundation deposit in the king's pyramid at Nuri, it is now in the British Museum. Pieces of amazonite and slate and travertine inlays from Siaspiqa's sarcophagus have also been uncovered together with a small offering vessel and cup, both made of clay. A piece of the rim of an alabaster canopic jar has also been found, which could be significant as the last known royal use of such equipment although the jar could instead be an intrusion, hence not dating from Siaspiqa's reign.

Siaspiqa's name is also attested on votive objects from the temple of Amun in Meroë.

Pyramid

Siaspiqa was buried in a pyramid he had prepared for himself at the royal necropolis of Nuri, now known as pyramid Nuri 4. The pyramid is made of sandstone masonry disposed in a plinth course as well as a sandstone enclosure. The building, too damaged to evaluate its original height, covers an approximately square surface of 26.95 meters per side.

Adjacent to the south-eastern face of the pyramid is a small chapel which housed the main granite offering stela. Walls of chapel might have been plastered white with incised hieroglyphs in red and gold.

The pyramid was built atop three subterranean chambers on the same level and entered in succession from a long corridor accessed via a flight of 49 stairs starting at ground level, the entrance of which is nearly in front of the chapel. The corridor is still blocked by a masonry plug as the thieves entered the pyramid by digging a vertical hole from ground level and leading directly behind the plug. The first chamber is in size with a paved floor, the second is , its floor unpaved, and the third and largest is with a paved floor of sandstone and granite. The walls of the chamber are uninscribed.

The burial chamber originally housed one or possibly two wooden anthropoid coffins for the king that were richly inlaid with obsidian, Lapis lazuli, slate and alabaster materials. Four fragments of what might be a human skull have also been uncovered there.