Pyramid of Merenre

Sullivan, Elaine A.

Pyramid of Merenre

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Type of resource	three dimensional object

Creators/Contributors

Creator	Sullivan, Elaine A.

Bibliographic information

Contained on project page	Title Model Metadata: Dynasty 6
ORIGINAL OWNER OR SPONSOR OF STRUCTURE (Owner/Builder)	Title Merenre
TYPE OF MONUMENT (Type)	Title Pyramid, Temple
TEMPORAL PERIOD OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First Period)	Title Old Kingdom
DYNASTY OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First Dynasty)	Title Dynasty 6
ROYAL REIGN OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First King)	Title Merenre
SITE	Title South Saqqara
MODERN SCHOLAR/EXPLORER FIRST DOCUMENTING STRUCTURE (Discoverer)	Title Perring
YEAR OF REDISCOVERY IN MODERN TIMES (Years)	Title ca. 1830s
TYPE OF STRUCTURE (3D Model Type)	Title Custom model
DATE OF MODEL CONSTRUCTION OR UPDATE (3D Model Date)	Title 2015.0
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
BASEMAPS/IMAGERY UTILIZED FOR GEO-REFERENCING 2D BASE DATA (Maps Used)	Title Geo-referenced on MHR Le Caire map H23 combined with Microsoft Streets basemap
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL HEIGHT OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Height Original(m))	Title 52.5
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL LENGTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Length Original(m))	Title 78.75
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL WIDTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Width Original(m))	Title 78.75
SOURCES/REFERENCE USED AS BASIS FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION (3D Data Source)	Title Mark Lehner, The Complete Pyramids (London: Thames and Hudson, 1997); Miroslav Verner, The Pyramids: The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt’s Great Monuments (New York: Grove Press, 2001)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL EXTERIOR MATERIAL (3D Texture)	Title StoneThe pyramid is in complete ruin in modern times; Verner (2001) reported that the pyramid was originally cased with fine limestone (discovered by Perring, not visible in the present rubble); due to the fact that the height/size are extremely similar to that of the better documented pyramid of Pepy I, the white limestone casing block texture was based on the sizing of that pyramid
UNCERTAINTY LEVEL FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION	Title 3.0
Elevation - placement in model ASL	Title 45.0
Discussion of virtual reconstruction and interpretative choices	Title Lehner’s publication (1997: 17) was used for the pyramid’s measurements; Verner (2001: 360-362) was used for additional details; a detailed archaeological plan of the original monument remains unpublished, so a simple pyramid form (without any additional structures) was added to the model to represent the visual impact of large monuments at South Saqqara from the core Saqqara area; no additional details (memorial temple, mud-brick enclosure wall, and 200+m causeway, etc.) were added into the modelThe pyramid form (in concert with all the Dynasty 4-6 pyramids in the model) alters to a deflating ‘ruin’ in the 3D model at the time-slide to Dynasty 18 (1548 BCE), approximately 1000 years after its construction in Dynasty 6; this does not correspond with a single destruction event in reality, but represents a general marker to the reader that many of the stone monuments of the Old Kingdom may have been naturally deflating or intentionally reused or their stone repurposed during the New Kingdom, see: Jaromir Málek, “A meeting of the old and new: Saqqara during the New Kingdom,” in Studies in Pharaonic religion and society: in honour of J. Gwyn Griffiths, ed. Alan B Lloyd (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1992), 60, 65-73; inscribed blocks from the Unas causeway and other Old Kingdom monuments have been identified as reused in the New Kingdom temple tombs by their recent excavators (see Section 2)
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/nw354tz2610

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