View: Saqqara to North Pyramid

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Abstract
Digital representation of the view of the observer standing in north Saqqara, looking toward the Dahshur necropolis. The bent pyramid and mastaba of Shepseskaf are not visible; the top of the north pyramid of Sneferu is visible if the viewer walked west of Tomb S3075. Analysis performed in CityEngine 2018.

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Type of resource still image
Extent 1 jpg file

Creators/Contributors

Creator Sullivan, Elaine A.

Bibliographic information

Contained on project page
Title
‘Imakhu in the Sight of the King’: Old Kingdom Elite Tombs and Visibility to the Royal Pyramid
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/gn912dc6555

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Stanford University, 2019.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND).

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Constructing the Sacred Archive

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