Royal Resthouse

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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 18
ORIGINAL OWNER OR SPONSOR OF STRUCTURE (Owner/Builder)	Title Amenhotep II, Thutmose IV?
TYPE OF MONUMENT (Type)	Title Rest house or royal palace?
TEMPORAL PERIOD OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First Period)	Title New Kingdom
DYNASTY OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First Dynasty)	Title Dynasty 18
ROYAL REIGN OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First King)	Title Amenhotep II, Thutmose IV?
SITE	Title Saqqara
MODERN SCHOLAR/EXPLORER FIRST DOCUMENTING STRUCTURE (Discoverer)	Title Yoshimura
YEAR OF REDISCOVERY IN MODERN TIMES (Years)	Title 1995.0
TYPE OF STRUCTURE (3D Model Type)	Title Custom model
DATE OF MODEL CONSTRUCTION OR UPDATE (3D Model Data)	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 4 (estimated)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL LENGTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Length Original(m))	Title 25 (estimated by Kawai 2012: 39)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL WIDTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Width Original(m))	Title 22 (estimated by Kawai 2012: 39)
SOURCES/REFERENCE USED AS BASIS FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION (3D Data Source)	Title Nozomu Kawai, “Waseda University Excavations at Northwest Saqqara,” Friends of the Saqqara Foundation Newsletter 10 (2012): 38–46
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL EXTERIOR DECORATION	Title Buttressed on outer four corners
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL EXTERIOR MATERIAL (3D Texture)	Title Mud-brick
UNCERTAINTY LEVEL FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION	Title 4.0
Elevation - placement in model ASL	Title 86.0
Discussion of virtual reconstruction and interpretative choices	Title The remains of the structure show that it was originally a rectangular building with buttressed corners, the lower (preserved) portion made entirely out of mud-brick. Stamped bricks with the cartouches of Amenhotep II and Thutmose IV were recovered by the excavators, giving a tentative date for the building. The structure is thought to have functioned as a royal rest house or palace due to finds at the site (Kawai 2012: 39–40).Unfortunately, with only two courses of mud-brick remaining from the base of the structure, little is concretely known about the upper portion of the monument; the royal structures of the New Kingdom in this area are of a monumental size, so the mud-brick platform was raised to 4m in the model in order to indicate the presence of a substantial structure. The actual appearance of the original interior/upper structure remains completely unknown, and the platform may have been much shorter, acting as a base for a mud-brick or stone building.The “wide ditch” around the north, east, and south sides of the building described by the excavators was not included in the model (Kawai 2012: 39).
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/tx237xp2328

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