Bubastieion

Description

Type of resource	three dimensional object

Creators/Contributors

Creator	Sullivan, Elaine A.

Bibliographic information

Contained on project page	Title Model Metadata: Dynasties 26-30
ORIGINAL OWNER OR SPONSOR OF STRUCTURE (Owner/Builder)	Title Unknown (Bubastieion)
TYPE OF MONUMENT (Type)	Title Enclosure, temple complex (not modeled)
TEMPORAL PERIOD OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First Period)	Title Late Period
DYNASTY OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First Dynasty)	Title Unknown
ROYAL REIGN OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First King)	Title -
SITE	Title Saqqara
MODERN SCHOLAR/EXPLORER FIRST DOCUMENTING STRUCTURE (Discoverer)	Title de Morgan
YEAR OF REDISCOVERY IN MODERN TIMES (Years)	Title 1890s?
TYPE OF STRUCTURE (3D Model Type)	Title Custom model
DATE OF MODEL CONSTRUCTION OR UPDATE (3D Model Date)	Title 2016.0
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)	Title Polygon created for the 3D Saqqara Project, 2013, based on digital data from Bresciani and Giammarusti (2003) and Brienza (2010)
COMMENTS ON 2D DATA (Annotation)	Title Polygon size and form based on plan in Jeffreys, Smith and Price (1988: fig. 1); eastern edges of structures have been extended to suggest full size of enclosures
BASEMAPS/IMAGERY UTILIZED FOR GEO-REFERENCING 2D BASE DATA (Maps Used)	Title -
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL HEIGHT OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Height Original(m))	Title ~8, walls (estimated)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL LENGTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Length Original(m))	Title ~290 west wall (Jeffreys, Smith, and Price 1988: fig. 1)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL WIDTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Width Original(m))	Title ~173 north wall (as preserved), ~170 south wall (as preserved) (Jeffreys, Smith, and Price 1988: fig. 1)
SOURCES/REFERENCE USED AS BASIS FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION (3D Data Source)	Title David Jeffreys, Harry Smith, and M. Jessop Price, The Anubieion at Saqqâra I: The Settlement and Temple Precinct, Excavation Memoir 54 (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1988)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL EXTERIOR MATERIAL (3D Texture)	Title Mud-brickThe model was textured with the same mud-brick texture as and sized on that of the Anubieion model
UNCERTAINTY LEVEL FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION	Title 3.0
Elevation - placement in model ASL	Title 58.4 base level for exterior northwest corner, 49.1 base level for exterior southwest corner; model drops 12.5m+ (north wall) and 15m+ (south wall) as it descends to the east
Discussion of virtual reconstruction and interpretative choices	Title Jeffreys, Smith, and Price dated this enclosure to “at least…the 4th century BC” and suggested that it was “roughly contemporary in construction with the Anubieion enclosure walls” (1988:79).With very little detailed information available on the monument, the 3D model is a highly simplified and standardized form of what would have been a very complex and irregular structure. The ground plan in Jeffreys, Smith, and Price (1988: fig. 1) was used for the general shape and size of the monument; the enclosure was given a height similar to that of the Anubieion (8m with a 10m gateway on the north and a 12m gate on the south, which is called “massive” by the excavators).No interior details such as the possible interior temples or interior walls were included in the 3D model. The extension of the south wall to the east (downslope) was based on the projected line suggested by Jeffreys, Smith, and Price (1988: fig. 1). Similar to the neighboring Anubieion, the eastern extension of the enclosure walls in the 3D model depict the line of those walls as recovered by the excavators, and it should be understood that the original extent of the walls to the east in ancient times remains unclear. The existence (or line) of a potential eastern outer enclosure wall along the valley floor was not established by the excavators.
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/nh759wf7557

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