Pyramid of Teti

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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 Teti
TYPE OF MONUMENT (Type)	Title Pyramid, Temple, Causeway
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 Maspero
YEAR OF REDISCOVERY IN MODERN TIMES (Years)	Title 1882.0
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)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL HEIGHT OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Height Original(m))	Title 52.5, satellite pyramid 16
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 Jean Philippe Lauer and Jean Leclant, Le Temple Haut du Complexe Funéraire du Roi Téti, vol. 51, Bibliothèque d’étude (Cairo, 1972); 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 ENCLOSURE WALL DIMENSIONS	Title 105 x 127.5 x ~7
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL EXTERIOR MATERIAL (3D Texture)	Title StoneVerner (2001: 345) noted that the enclosure wall was made of limestone and the open courtyard had pink granite pillars, so simple textures were added to the model reflect those materials; because little information on the outer casing of the Teti pyramid is available (the pyramid is today collapsed and there is no visible exterior casing), the limestone casing texture was based on that of the pyramid of Unas, the predecessor of Teti, which ran around 1.2m per course
UNCERTAINTY LEVEL FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION	Title 2.0
Elevation - placement in model ASL	Title 56.25
Discussion of virtual reconstruction and interpretative choices	Title The form of the pyramid was based on the dimensions and descriptions of Lehner (1997: 17, 156-157) and Verner (2001: 342-348)Reconstructions of the pyramid temple, enclosures, and satellite pyramid were based on the plans and drawings of Lauer and Leclant (1972: plates XXXVII and XXXV), with the pyramid temple form highly simplified in the model; general heights from those reconstructions have been followed, with the enclosure wall measuring around 7m, in order to visualize the temple to the correct scale, but very little detail and no interior detail (with the exception of the pillars in the open courtyard) have been added to the model; the rounded top of the enclosure walls have been included to keep that visual aspect of the exterior structure; all doorways have been given a standard height of 3m, similar to the entrance door height shown in the axial plansThe complex’s causeway has not been fully excavated, and in the model it only extends part way down the escarpment, although it would have run further down to connect with a valley temple originally; the form of the causeway was based on that of Unas, and its position in the model is based on the plan of the initial meters in Lauer and Leclant (1972: pl. XXXV) and reflects general scholarly opinion that the causeway was directed to extend south of the existing pyramid to the east (Lepsius 29, possibly Menkauhor of Dynasty 5); the valley temple, whose original position is unknown, is not reconstructed in 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/tc651mq4077

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