Lepsius 24 (XXIV)

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Type of resource three dimensional object

Creators/Contributors

Creator Sullivan, Elaine A.

Bibliographic information

Contained on project page
Title
Model Metadata: Dynasty 5
ORIGINAL OWNER OR SPONSOR OF STRUCTURE (Owner/Builder)
Title
Unknown ('Lepsius 24', possibly a queen of Niuserre?)
TYPE OF MONUMENT (Type)
Title
Pyramid
TEMPORAL PERIOD OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First Period)
Title
Old Kingdom
DYNASTY OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First Dynasty)
Title
Dynasty 5
ROYAL REIGN OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First King)
Title
Niuserre?
SITE
Title
Abusir
MODERN SCHOLAR/EXPLORER FIRST DOCUMENTING STRUCTURE (Discoverer)
Title
Lepsius
YEAR OF REDISCOVERY IN MODERN TIMES (Years)
Title
1843.0
TYPE OF STRUCTURE (3D Model Type)
Title
Custom model
DATE OF MODEL CONSTRUCTION OR UPDATE (3D Model Date)
Title
2013.0
NAME OF 3D MODELER
Title
Elaine Sullivan
SOFTWARE USED FOR MODEL BUILD
Title
SketchUp Pro
COPYRIGHT (Copyright)
Title
UC Regents, 3D Saqqara Project
SOURCES/REFERENCES FOR 2D BASE DATA (Citation)
Title
Polygon data from Bresciani and Giammarusti (2003) added to and emended by GIS Supervisor and Senior Surveyor Emanuele Brienza (2010)
BASEMAPS/IMAGERY UTILIZED FOR GEO-REFERENCING 2D BASE DATA (Maps Used)
Title
Geo-referenced on MHR Le Caire map H21
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL HEIGHT OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Height Original(m))
Title
24.4, slope of pyramid = 57 degrees
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL LENGTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Length Original(m))
Title
31.1 (originally 60 Egyptian cubits)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL WIDTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Width Original(m))
Title
31.1 (originally 60 Egyptian cubits)
SOURCES/REFERENCE USED AS BASIS FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION (3D Data Source)
Title
Jaromír Krejčí, Abusir XVIII: The Royal Necropolis in Abusir, Abusir, XVIII (Prague: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, 2010), 169-171); Jaromír Krejčí, “Pyramid ‘Lepsius No. XXIV,’” Czech Institute of Archaeology Field Projects: Abusir, 2005
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL EXTERIOR MATERIAL (3D Texture)
Title
Krejčí (2005) reported that a piece of the original white limestone casing was discovered on the north side of pyramid, showing that the pyramid had been cased; because limestone block sizing was not defined, the pyramid was given a simple white limestone texture in the 3D model
UNCERTAINTY LEVEL FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION
Title
2.0
Elevation - placement in model ASL
Title
51.5
Discussion of virtual reconstruction and interpretative choices
Title
A simple pyramid form (without any additional structures) was added to the model to represent the visual impact of large monuments at Abusir from the core Saqqara area; no additional details were added into the model for the Abusir area monumentsThe pyramid form (in concert with all the Dynasty 4-6 pyramids in the model) alters to a deflating ‘ruin’ in the 3D model at the time-slide to Dynasty 18 (1548 BCE), approximately 1000 years after its construction in Dynasty 5; this does not correspond with a single destruction event in reality, but represents a general marker to the reader that many of the stone monuments of the Old Kingdom may have been naturally deflating or intentionally reused or their stone repurposed during the New Kingdom, see: Jaromir Málek, “A meeting of the old and new: Saqqara during the New Kingdom,” in Studies in Pharaonic religion and society: in honour of J. Gwyn Griffiths, ed. Alan B Lloyd (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1992), 60, 65-73; inscribed blocks from the Unas causeway and other Old Kingdom monuments have been identified as reused in the New Kingdom temple tombs by their recent excavators (see Section 2)
Part of publication
Title
Sullivan, Elaine A. Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis at Saqqara, Redwood City: Stanford University Press 2020, http://doi.org/10.21627/2020cts
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/by862pj9929

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Copyright
Stanford University, 2019.
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Constructing the Sacred Archive

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