Tomb of Maya

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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 Maya and Meryt
TYPE OF MONUMENT (Type)	Title Temple tomb
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 Tutankhamun
SITE	Title Saqqara
MODERN SCHOLAR/EXPLORER FIRST DOCUMENTING STRUCTURE (Discoverer)	Title Lepsius
YEAR OF REDISCOVERY IN MODERN TIMES (Years)	Title 1843.0
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 Sophie Short
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 ~9.5, pyramid from floor level to tip (estimated)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL LENGTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Length Original(m))	Title 44.0
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL WIDTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Width Original(m))	Title 16.6, pylon
SOURCES/REFERENCE USED AS BASIS FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION (3D Data Source)	Title Geoffrey Martin, Jacobus Van Dijk, and Kenneth Frazer, The Tomb of Maya and Meryt I: The Reliefs, Inscriptions, and Commentary, Excavation Memoir 99 (London: Egypt Exploration Society, 2012)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL EXTERIOR DECORATION	Title Painted, plastered, other
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL EXTERIOR MATERIAL (3D Texture)	Title Stone, mud-brickThe outside walls of the tomb are presented as mud-brick with a mud plaster coating, as there was no evidence to suggest white lime plastering. The interior walls, including the interior face of the pylon, were lined by a limestone revetment; the interiors of the westernmost chapels were mud-plastered; the exterior of the mud-brick pylon was coated with mud-plaster (excavators suggested that it may have been originally plastered with lime or gesso, not shown in the model). The flooring throughout the tomb was paved with limestone with the exception of the mud-paving in the western chapels; the mud-brick pyramid was textured to represent a possible limestone casing.
UNCERTAINTY LEVEL FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION	Title 1.0
Elevation - placement in model ASL	Title 55.8 (base of pylon and entrance threshold)
Discussion of virtual reconstruction and interpretative choices	Title The tomb of Maya and Meryt consisted of a pylon entrance, outer courtyard with covered rear portico, and three vaulted chambers (chapels A and B and the statue room) leading to an inner peristyle courtyard; it ended with a central sanctuary flanked by two side chapels. All reconstructed wall and column measurements are based on the description and scaled plans and cross-section drawings in Martin, van Dijk, and Frazer (2012: 4–11, pls. 1, 1A, and 1C); the 3D model is a highly simplified version of the monument.The pylon towers were hypothesized to have reached 7–8m above pavement level; in the model, the pylon is raised to 7m. The portico columns in the outer courtyard stood 3.18m. The walls in the outer courtyard have been raised to ~4+m above pavement level, and the walls in chapels A and B have been raised to 3m above pavement level based on the surviving height of the vault spring at 2.1m. The statue room has been raised to the height of ~4m above pavement level based on the excavator’s assertion that the vault spring would have been higher than that of chapels A and B; the statue room has been left without a roof other than its vault, as the room is too wide to support a slab roof without additional support (for which no evidence remained). The columns of the inner courtyard were ~2.3m tall; the height of the inner courtyard walls was projected to have been ~2.8m above pavement level. The walls of the sanctuary (offering room D) and two side chapels (C and E) were reconstructed to ~2.25m above pavement level.The thickness of the mud-brick walls of the sanctuary (offering room D) led the excavators to conclude that the structure was originally capped with a mud-brick pyramid, whose height was hypothesized at ~7.25m; the pyramid’s full height (above the roof) could thus have been ~9.5m. Excavators suggested that inscribed stone slabs uncovered at the site were originally positioned on the pyramid, similar to a decorative detail from the stone pyramid of the tomb of Tia and Tia (2012: 40), so the mud-brick pyramid was textured with limestone to show that it may have been fully or partly cased in stone.
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/vg134yk1706

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