Mycerinus

American  

[mis-uh-rahy-nuhs] / ˌmɪs əˈraɪ nəs /

noun

1. king of ancient Egypt c2600–2570 b.c.: builder of the third great pyramid at El Giza.

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Example Sentences

With their neat figures and confident smiles, the Old Kingdom ruler Mycerinus and his queen, in a renowned carved portrait, looked like friends of my parents arriving for cocktails, straight from a spaceship.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2010

Such were Cheops and Chephren and Mycerinus, who built those vast sepulchral piles, the pyramids at Gizeh.

From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

This mummiform type of sarcophagus is rarely met with under the Memphite dynasties, though that of Menkara, the Mycerinus of the Greeks, affords a memorable example.

From Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt by Maspero, G. (Gaston)

The pyramid of Cephren was slightly smaller, and that of Mycerinus still more so, compensated for by a casing in granite.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various

In Obermann Once More, in Thyrsis, in The Scholar Gipsy, in Mycerinus, in Resignation, in the lines To a Gipsy Child, and in numerous other pieces we see the workings of this critical spirit.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh