Pyramid of Aba/Ibi

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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 8
ORIGINAL OWNER OR SPONSOR OF STRUCTURE (Owner/Builder)
Title
Aba/Ibi
TYPE OF MONUMENT (Type)
Title
Pyramid, Chapel
TEMPORAL PERIOD OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First Period)
Title
Old Kingdom
DYNASTY OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First Dynasty)
Title
Dynasty 8
ROYAL REIGN OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First King)
Title
Aba/Ibi
SITE
Title
South Saqqara
MODERN SCHOLAR/EXPLORER FIRST DOCUMENTING STRUCTURE (Discoverer)
Title
Jéquier
YEAR OF REDISCOVERY IN MODERN TIMES (Years)
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ca. 1932
TYPE OF STRUCTURE (3D Model Type)
Title
Custom model
DATE OF MODEL CONSTRUCTION OR UPDATE (3D Model Date)
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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)
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Polygon created for the 3D Saqqara Project, 2013
COMMENTS ON 2D DATA (Annotation)
Title
Location is only approximate based on Jéquier's description of location and satellite imagery
BASEMAPS/IMAGERY UTILIZED FOR GEO-REFERENCING 2D BASE DATA (Maps Used)
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Geo-referenced on MHR Le Caire map H23
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL HEIGHT OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Height Original(m))
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21 (intended), 3 (preserved)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL LENGTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Length Original(m))
Title
31.5
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL WIDTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Width Original(m))
Title
31.5
SOURCES/REFERENCE USED AS BASIS FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION (3D Data Source)
Title
Mark Lehner, The Complete Pyramids (London: Thames and Hudson, 1997); Gustave Jéquier, La Pyramide d’Aba, Ed. photographique., Fouilles à Saqqarah (Cairo: Impr. de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 1935)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL EXTERIOR MATERIAL (3D Texture)
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StoneThe limestone facing was given a white large limestone texture; the interior core a smaller unfinished stone pattern to approximate the core's reported structure based on the description of Jéquier (1935)
UNCERTAINTY LEVEL FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION
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3.0
Elevation - placement in model ASL
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35.0
Discussion of virtual reconstruction and interpretative choices
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Jéquier (1935: 1) described the remains of the core pyramid when discovered as only reaching 3m high; the interior existing stone fill core was surrounded by a wide foundation trench for the Tura limestone lining of the pyramid, 1m of this remained, and the full base was to measure 31.5m, the rest may never had been completed (Jéquier 1935: pl. 1 and p. 3); Lehner reported that the pyramid core was made of “small stones” (1997: 164)Since both Lehner and Jéquier suggest this pyramid superstructure was never completed, the interior is only extruded 3 meters above ground level (to match with its preserved height), and the outer limestone lining is extruded to 1m above ground (designed to approximate the size and slope if it were intended to reach a height of 21m at completion, per the suggestion of Lehner 1997: 164) to indicate the area of the casing foundation; the actual original elevation of the form remains unclear and potentially could have been higherThe model does not include the remains of the building to the east of the pyramid, which was made of mud-brick, which Jéquier thought was a temporary installation meant to later be replaced by the formal chapel (Jéquier 1935: 2, pl. I)
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/db634kw5872

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Copyright
Stanford University, 2019.
License
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Constructing the Sacred Archive

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