Tomb of Raia

Description

Type of resource	three dimensional object

Creators/Contributors

Associated with	Sullivan, Elaine A.

Bibliographic information

Contained on project page	Title Model Metadata: Dynasties 19-20
ORIGINAL OWNER OR SPONSOR OF STRUCTURE (Owner/Builder)	Title Raia
TYPE OF MONUMENT (Type)	Title Chapel
TEMPORAL PERIOD OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First Period)	Title New Kingdom
DYNASTY OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First Dynasty)	Title Dynasty 19
ROYAL REIGN OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First King)	Title Ramesses II
SITE	Title Saqqara
MODERN SCHOLAR/EXPLORER FIRST DOCUMENTING STRUCTURE (Discoverer)	Title Martin
YEAR OF REDISCOVERY IN MODERN TIMES (Years)	Title 1981.0
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 Cori Hoover
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)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL HEIGHT OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Height Original(m))	Title 3.3, chapel with pyramid (estimated)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL LENGTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Length Original(m))	Title ~1.7, chapel (east-west)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL WIDTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Width Original(m))	Title ~2.1, chapel (north-south)
SOURCES/REFERENCE USED AS BASIS FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION (3D Data Source)	Title Geoffrey Martin et al., The Tomb-Chapels of Paser and Ra’ia at Saqqâra, Excavation Memoir 52 (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1985)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL EXTERIOR DECORATION	Title Plaster; yellow and red paint
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL EXTERIOR MATERIAL (3D Texture)	Title Mud-brick, limestone, plasterThe chapel’s walls were limestone block, and the texture was adjusted to reflect the size of the exterior blocks visible in Martin et al. (1985: pl. 15), estimated at approximately 20cm in height per course. For the column paint, a digital photo of yellow painted relief in the tomb of Merynieth was sampled and placed onto the columns as a solid texture; the hypothesized mud-brick pyramid was given a texture to reflect that material, without a stone revetment or white plaster, and a pyramidion with a simple limestone texture (hypothesized) was placed at the top. The interior of the chapel was originally paved and has thus been appropriately textured to represent the general size of those stones.
UNCERTAINTY LEVEL FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION	Title 1.0
Elevation - placement in model ASL	Title 55.8
Discussion of virtual reconstruction and interpretative choices	Title The tomb of Raia consisted of an open court with single-roomed chapel, built directly abutting the south wall of the neighboring tomb of Paser. The model of the tomb was based on the description, plans, and site photographs in Martin et al. (1985: 10–15, pls. 2, 14–15).In modern times, Raia’s limestone chapel walls stand ~1.75 meters, which the excavators believed was close to the original height. Two limestone columns stood at the entrance to the chapel; the excavators believed that these columns were intended to support a small mud-brick pyramid on the roof, here reconstructed in a similar size to that of the tomb of Paser, with a small pyramidion, as suggested by the excavator Martin et al. (1985: 11) (although no evidence remains for its size or material). The original mud-brick enclosure wall around the open court was not well preserved; only the location of one of its walls was discovered, so it was not included in the model. A unique feature of the chapel of Raia is that the columns were covered in plaster and then painted yellow (with the floral base decoration painted red/brown, a detail not included in the model).
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/sz524fd9637

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