Tomb 3036

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Description

Type of resource three dimensional object

Creators/Contributors

Creator Sullivan, Elaine A.

Bibliographic information

Contained on project page
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Model Metadata: Dynasty 1
ORIGINAL OWNER OR SPONSOR OF STRUCTURE (Owner/Builder)
Title
Unknown (3036)
TYPE OF MONUMENT (Type)
Title
Mastaba
TEMPORAL PERIOD OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First Period)
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Early Dynastic Period
DYNASTY OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First Dynasty)
Title
Dynasty 1
ROYAL REIGN OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First King)
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Unknown
SITE
Title
Saqqara
MODERN SCHOLAR/EXPLORER FIRST DOCUMENTING STRUCTURE (Discoverer)
Title
Firth
YEAR OF REDISCOVERY IN MODERN TIMES (Years)
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1930–1931
TYPE OF STRUCTURE (3D Model Type)
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Custom model
DATE OF MODEL CONSTRUCTION OR UPDATE (3D Model Date)
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2013.0
NAME OF 3D MODELER
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Tori Schniedewind
SOFTWARE USED FOR MODEL BUILD
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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)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL HEIGHT OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Height Original(m))
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3.8 (estimated); 2.25 (preserved)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL LENGTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Length Original(m))
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41.0
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL WIDTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Width Original(m))
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22.0
SOURCES/REFERENCE USED AS BASIS FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION (3D Data Source)
Title
Walter Emery, Great Tombs of the First Dynasty, Excavations at Saqqara 1 (Cairo: Government Press, 1949)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL EXTERIOR DECORATION
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Niched façade
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL ENCLOSURE WALL DIMENSIONS
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46.5m x 28.5m
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL EXTERIOR MATERIAL (3D Texture)
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Mud-brick; white plaster
UNCERTAINTY LEVEL FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION
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2.0
Elevation - placement in model ASL IN METERS
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54.0
Discussion of virtual reconstruction and interpretative choices
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Exterior niching size and form based on the plan of the tomb in Emery (1949: pl. 14). Emery reconstructed the possible height of the superstructure as 3.8m (1949: pl. 15), and that was used for the visualization in the model. The enclosure wall in the model is constructed to a height of approximately half the estimated height of the full tomb superstructure, based on other Dynasty 1 examples, but Emery suggested that the enclosure wall (preserved to ~1.25m) may have stood at the same height as the superstructure, so the wall height as reconstructed here is highly hypothetical. None of the the upper portions of the mastabas with exterior niching were preserved at Saqqara; the design of this part of the monument in the model is highly hypothetical, based on Early Dynastic palace façade imagery that shows some type of flat panel between the most deeply recessed niches, with the shallower niched areas extending higher, as visualized more elaborately in Emery (1954: pl. 39).In Dynasty 5, the mastaba (as well as all the Dynasty 1 mastaba tombs) is replaced in the model by a deflated ruin; any elaborate niching, polychrome paint, and enclosures are replaced by a solid rectangular structure, shorter than the original, to represent the possible melting and collapse of the brick structure. The exact dating and duration for this process is unclear, but Emery’s excavations show that, in Dynasties 2–3, new tombs were already built against and even over the earliest structures, suggesting that the deflation process was rapid and certainly took place before the end of the Old Kingdom.
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/cb820zq2353

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Copyright
Stanford University, 2019.
License
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Constructing the Sacred Archive

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