Pyramid of Queen Sesheshet?

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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 Sesheshet? (mother of king Teti)
TYPE OF MONUMENT (Type)	Title Pyramid
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 Teti
SITE	Title Saqqara
MODERN SCHOLAR/EXPLORER FIRST DOCUMENTING STRUCTURE (Discoverer)	Title Hawass
YEAR OF REDISCOVERY IN MODERN TIMES (Years)	Title 2008.0
TYPE OF STRUCTURE (3D Model Type)	Title Custom model
DATE OF MODEL CONSTRUCTION OR UPDATE (3D Model Date)	Title 2018.0
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, 2018
COMMENTS ON 2D DATA (Annotation)	Title Hawass (2011: figs. 4, 6) were used to geo-reference model polygon
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL HEIGHT OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Height Original(m))	Title 15 (estimated)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL LENGTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Length Original(m))	Title 22.0
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL WIDTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Width Original(m))	Title 22.0
SOURCES/REFERENCE USED AS BASIS FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION (3D Data Source)	Title Zahi Hawass, “The Discovery of the Pyramid of Queen Sesheshet(?) At Saqqara,” in Signs, Times and Pyramids: Studies in Honor of Miroslav Varner, ed. Gae Callender et al. (Prague: Charles University in Prague, 2011), 173–90
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL EXTERIOR MATERIAL (3D Texture)	Title StoneHawass (2011) reported that the pyramid had a white limestone casing, with casing stones averaging 1.8m wide, these descriptions of materials were used to guide the texturing of the model visualization
UNCERTAINTY LEVEL FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION	Title 3.0
Elevation - placement in model ASL	Title 54.6
Discussion of virtual reconstruction and interpretative choices	Title Hawass (2011) reported that the pyramid casing sloped at a 51-degree angle; the full original height of the pyramid was estimated by Hawass based on slope of these preserved casing stonesThe 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/rd118jw9745

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