It had a base length of converging at 56° towards the apex high. From the north face, a bent corridor – initially descending, then switching to an ascent – leads into the miniature pyramid's sole chamber: an east-west oriented burial room found slightly below ground level. The chamber was found void of any content, and its walls had been severely damaged by stone thieves. The purpose of the cult pyramid remains unclear. Its burial chamber was not used for burials, but instead appears to have been a purely symbolic structure. It may have hosted the pharaoh's "ka" (spirit), or a miniature statue of the king. It may have been used for ritual performances centering around the burial and resurrection of the "ka" spirit during the "Sed" festival. A necropolis on the transverse corridor's southern end by the cult pyramid, is accessed through the side-entrance. It is largely unexplored, but is thought to be the burial ground of Sahure's consort, Meretnebty, and son, Netjerirenre. During the Eighteenth Dynasty, the south corridor of Sahure's mortuary temple became home to a cult of Sekhmet. Its early history is unknown, and though Borchardt suggested that the cult had its origins in the Middle Kingdom, there is no evidence to support this conjecture. The earliest attested royal connection to cult is Thutmose IV, of the Eighteenth Dynasty, followed later by Ay and Horemheb. Amenhotep III, of the Eighteenth Dynasty, has been connected to the temple through a faience object bearing his name, as have Seti I and Ramesses II, of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt, through restoration inscriptions bearing their names. The renewed attention had a negative consequence as the first wave of dismantlement of the Abusir monuments, particularly for the acquisition of valuable Tura limestone, arrived with it. Sahure's mortuary temple may have been spared at this time due to the presence of the cult. The cult's influence likely waned after the end of Ramesses II's reign, becoming a site of local worship only. The Abusir necropolis and Sahure's cult garnered attention once again in the Twenty-Fifth and/or Twenty–Sixth Dynasties, as evidenced by the copying of relief art from the monuments. Taharqa, of the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty, had various reliefs replicated – such as images of the king crushing his enemies as a sphinx – from the mortuary temple's of Sahure, Nyuserre, and Pepi II for the restoration of the temple of Kawa in Nubia.