sahure built or started to build a temple dedicated to the sun god ra, the second such temple of the fifth dynasty. yet to be located, it is known to have existed thanks an inscription on the palermo stone where it is called "sekhetre" (also spelt "sekhet re"), meaning "the field of ra" as well as mentions of it in 24 tombs of administration officials. a few limestone blocks bearing reliefs which once adorned the temple have been found embedded in the walls of the mortuary complex of nyuserre ini, sahure's fourth successor. this suggests either that these blocks were leftovers from the construction of the temple, or as wener kaiser has posited, that nyuserre dismantled sahure's temple, using it as a quarry for construction materials because it was largely unfinished. indeed, the rather meager evidence for the "sekhetre" leads miroslav verner to propose that it never fully functioned as a sun temple.