Sun Temple of Userkaf

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Description

Type of resource three dimensional object

Creators/Contributors

Creator Sullivan, Elaine A.

Bibliographic information

Contained on project page
Title
Model Metadata: Dynasty 5
ORIGINAL OWNER OR SPONSOR OF STRUCTURE (Owner/Builder)
Title
Userkaf
TYPE OF MONUMENT (Type)
Title
Temple (Solar), Obelisk
TEMPORAL PERIOD OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First Period)
Title
Old Kingdom
DYNASTY OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First Dynasty)
Title
Dynasty 5
ROYAL REIGN OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First King)
Title
Userkaf
SITE
Title
Abusir/Abu Ghurab
MODERN SCHOLAR/EXPLORER FIRST DOCUMENTING STRUCTURE (Discoverer)
Title
Lepsius
YEAR OF REDISCOVERY IN MODERN TIMES (Years)
Title
1842-43
TYPE OF STRUCTURE (3D Model Type)
Title
Custom model
DATE OF MODEL CONSTRUCTION OR UPDATE (3D Model Date)
Title
2013.0
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 data from Bresciani and Giammarusti (2003) added to and emended by GIS Supervisor and Senior Surveyor Emanuele Brienza (2010)
BASEMAPS/IMAGERY UTILIZED FOR GEO-REFERENCING 2D BASE DATA (Maps Used)
Title
Geo-referenced on MHR Le Caire map H21
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL HEIGHT OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Height Original(m))
Title
31 (hypothesized)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL LENGTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Length Original(m))
Title
21, base of pedestal
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL WIDTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Width Original(m))
Title
21, base of pedestal
SOURCES/REFERENCE USED AS BASIS FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION (3D Data Source)
Title
Herbert Ricke, Das Sonnenheiligtum des Königs Userkaf, Beiträge zur Ägyptischen Bauforschung und Altertumskunde, Heft 7-8 (Kairo: Schweizerisches Institut für Ägyptische Bauforschung und Altertumskunde, 1965); Mark Lehner, The Complete Pyramids (London: Thames and Hudson, 1997); Miroslav Verner, Forgotten Pharaohs, Lost Pyramids: Abusir (Praha, Czech Republic: Academia Škodaexport, 1994)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL EXTERIOR MATERIAL (3D Texture)
Title
StoneThe obelisk was textured with a simple red granite pattern, and the pedestal given a quartzite block texture with granite around the base, according to the description by Lehner (1997: 150-151)
UNCERTAINTY LEVEL FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION
Title
3.0
Elevation - placement in model ASL
Title
42.0
Discussion of virtual reconstruction and interpretative choices
Title
Ricke (1965: plans 13) for basic ground plan and estimated height and form; Lehner (1997) and Verner (1994) for additional detailsThe 3D model was based on the reconstruction drawings in Ricke, with the platform modeled to 9m tall, and the obelisk standing an additional 22m tall (totaling 31m); Krejčí, Abusir XVIII: The Royal Necropolis in Abusir, Abusir, XVIII (Prague: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, 2010), 132, noted that the actual original height of the obelisk remains unclearThe monument went through four stages of construction as documented by Ricke, and only the obelisk and pedestal (added in his ‘stage 2’) were added to the model to represent the visual impact of large monuments at Abusir from the core Saqqara area; no additional details (including the ~6m tall enclosure wall and temple buildings, causeway, or valley temple) were added to the model, as they were outside the scope of the projectLehner (1997: 150-151) stated that the obelisk may actually have been part of construction phases finished after the death of Userkaf, so the exact chronology of this individual structure remains unclear
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/pb735ch0310

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Copyright
Stanford University, 2019.
License
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Constructing the Sacred Archive

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