Constructing the Sacred Archive

Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara, by Elaine A. Sullivan, published by Stanford University Press in 2019 has been accessioned into the Stanford Digital Repository. This page serves as the public-facing cover of that archive. The assets in the archive, project content and media files, remain dark while the publication is available in its live version at http://constructingthesacred.org. The files will only be made accessible when the live publication is no longer supported by evolving server and browser configurations.

All scholarly textual content is contained in this collection’s Scalar Export file, a JSON data export from the Scalar platform in which the original publication was presented. All media objects, which are sourced from SDR into the project via src and href links, are included individually in the collection and carry detailed metadata. Assuming a researcher has access to an installation of Scalar 2, they could, using the Documentation, import the JSON file to recreate the original presentation.

For more information about the technical structure of the project, installation instructions, specifications, and user experience, please read the Documentation file, which can be found at the following URL: https://purl.stanford.edu/zr770hr8440.

For an archived, interactive version of the publication, please view the web archive of the project at https://archive.supdigital.org/constructing-the-sacred.html