View: Sekhemka to Abusir

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Abstract
Digital representation of the view of the observer (1.6m tall, eye-height 1.5m) standing immediately west of the tomb of Sekhemka (42.75m ASL), at the western edge of the north Saqqara escarpment (map overlay group A), looking toward the Abusir necropolis. Pyramids are prominent, bright blue mastabas in foreground date to Dynasty 5, orange mastabas date to Dynasty 3. 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/ky110fk9181

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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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