Shepseskaf
Shepseskaf´s tomb is called 'Mastaba el-Faraun', which is Arabic for 'Pharaoh´s Bench'. He was the last king of the 4th Dynasty, son of Menkaure and an unknown queen. He reigned for only four years. This was the period when the power and wealth of the 4th Dynasty began to vane. It is not really known why Shepseskaf built in southern Saqqara instead of at Giza. Perhaps there was no good place for another pyramid there, or economics might have been strained. It is also thought that perhaps he wanted to diminish the power of the priesthood of Re, for which the pyramid form was a sun symbol. Shepseskaf didn´t use Re in his name either. But who knows for sure.

When he had his mastaba and mortuary temple, he chose to leave tradition of four generations and did not build a pyramid but a very big mastaba, like a 'bench' in soutern Saqqara, even just south of the pyramid of Pepi II. It measures 99.6 m long and 74.4m wide. On the eastern side of the mastaba was a small mortuary temple, also differently built than its predecessors. There was an offering hall, a false door and several magazines. However, there was an inner and outer courtyard which takes up most of the space of the temple.

The mastaba was built of giant blocks of limestone and covered with finer, white limestone casing. There was a ground layer in pink granite. Prince Khaemwaset left restoration texts on the outside which are partly still existing. The entrance lies on the northern side. A sloping corridor leads 20 m in to an antechamber, burial chamber and magazines. Both these chambers were built in rpink granite and the ceilings were vaulted. The only thing found in the burial chamber was fragments of a dark basalt sarcophagus. The antechamber has a passage leading south to six niches and magazines.

There were two mudbrick walls surrounding the mastaba, with the small mortuary temple, which seems to have been built in two phases, on the eastern side. The first phase had a paved court, a T-shaped offering room with a false door and several rooms which might have been for storage. In the courtyard there was an altar. The later part included a larger courtyard to the east, with niches for statues.
There is also a valley temple which is not yet excavated, and a causeway, made of whitepainted mudbrick, leading to it from the mortuary temple.


Djedkare Isesi
Djedkare Isesi preceeded Unas. Djedkare, 5th Dynsty, was the first king to build his mortuary monuments in southern Saqqara. He reigned for some thirty years and changed the administration for Upper and Lower Egypt, plus he reorganized the mortuary cult at Abusir, where some of his officials were buried

His pyramid was once known as 'Beautiful is Djedkare'. It had a stepped core with an outer, smooth casing. A corridor inside was coverd with granite and sloped down from the north to a chamber covered with limestone. Next came a horizontal corridor leading to the antechamber, which was located beneath the apex of the pyramid. The corridor went past three portcullises on the way. In the burial chamber fragments were found of a basalt sarcophagus but no human remains. It was located to the west of this chamber, and to the east a tripartite magazine was located.

The Valley Temple and Causeway are now located beneath the modern village of Saqqara. Two massive pylons led the way into the temple from the causeway. Inside a long entrance corridor led to a court pavaed with alabaster and with columns all the way around. There were also magazines at the sides of the court. Then comes a long, narrow transverse hall behind which the inner parts of the temple lies. There is a room with niches for five cult statues and a square vestibule. Next is the the offering chapel which is also surrounded by magazines.

There was a satellite pyramid, and also a small pyramid complex at the northeastern corner of the enclosure. This small pyramid is often called the queen’s pyramid, though some think otherwize. Maybe the architecture and other structures of this complex point at this complex having had a special, religious function though it cannot be proved at this time.


Merenre Nemtyemsaf
succeeded Pepi I in the 6th Dyn., and came to reign for a short period, it is believed about nine years only. Possibly it was a co-regency with his father. His moter was Ankhenesmeryre. In the autobiography of Weni, the Governor of the South, Merenre is said to have visited Aswan in his ninth regnal year, to receive chieftains from the south. So at least he reigned for nine years.

His pyramid which is badly destroyed and gives almost nothing to see, lies to the west of Djedkare-Isesi´s. In ancient times it was called 'The Perfection of Merenre Appears'. It was investigated in the 1830´s when block of white limestones were found but these are no longer visisble. It was also entered in the 1880´s byt the Brugsch brothers, who found remains of the mummy, which was brought to London. There were also fragments of the Pyramid Texts. An entrance in the north wall with corner stones of a chapel was found. Then a sloping corridor led to a vestibule, a horisontal corridor which was blocked by big granite slabs. The tomb, like so many others, had been robbed in antiquity. There was also an antechamber with a niched statue room and a vaulted burial chamber. Though the chambers were in bad shape, the sarcophagus was intact. It enclosed the mummy of a young boy but it´s not certain this is Merenre, or if the tomb has been used for a later burial.

It is no longer possible to see there was any plan of a mortuary temple, a causeway or a valley temple. Remains of a mudbrick enclosure wall and a causeway 250 m long, going aruond the complex of Djedkare was found. Lately there has been some finds of a mortuary temple with limestone paving and some fragments of reliefs. No full investigation has been made and the site is difficult to get to.

Ibi
Ibi was an 8th Dynasty King. Not much is known about him, he reigned in a time when Egypt was divided after the decline following the reign of Pepi II. The First Intermediate Period can be said to begin with Dyn.7. Kings from this period are elusive and seem to have been many, an indication of unstability. It is in this time the legend of a queen named Nitocris is ascribed. Supopsedly she should have reigned but there is no evidence of her at all. Maybe she was just a scribal error and not a real person. There is also the idea that her name could be a misunderstanding of the nomen Netjerikare who is called Neitiqreti Siptah in the Turin list.

Ibi is the only king from this period to have built a pyramid. The remains of it lies near the causew3ay of Pepi II. The construction was similar to the pyramids of Pepi II. Not much of it remains today. There were small limestone blocks surrounding the inner rooms. There was found several inscriptions in red paint of 'Prince of Libya' for which no answer has been found. The entrance is from the nort-west and leads by a sloping corridor to the burial chamber, which walls were inscribed with the Pyramid Texts. This is the most recent Pyramid Texts which have been found sofar, and they were a good help in identifying this king.

There was also a small mortuary temple built of mudbrick with an open courtyard and storerooms around it. The offering room had a rectangular basin for libations in the floor.
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This is the last of the tombs and pyramids south of the Djoser Complex. Next, we move north of it where there are still many monuments.



Sources:
Who´s Who in Ancient Egypt - Michael Rice
The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt - Aidan Dodson
Chronicles of the Pharaohs - Peter A. Clayton
Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt - John Baines & Jaromir Malek
Three very good links also used as sources:
Saqqara Online
Egyptsites
Touregypt