View: Tomb of Ptahemwia, Memphis

Abstract/Contents

Abstract

Analysis of visibility shows elements that would be blocked (red) and visible (green) from the observer point. Observer (1.6m tall, eye-height 1.5m) standing immediately in front of the tomb of Ptahemwia (doorway threshold 57m ASL), looking toward a hypothetical Dynasty 18 temple of Ptah at Memphis represented by a New Kingdom-style pylon (base at 24.6m ASL, 26m in height). The Nile displayed in its possible location in the New Kingdom. Analysis performed in CityEngine 2018.0.

Description

Type of resource	still image
Extent	1 jpg file

Creators/Contributors

Creator	Sullivan, Elaine A.

Bibliographic information

Contained on project page	Title Tomb and Temple: Visual Connections to the Sanctuaries of Memphis in the New Kingdom
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/vh619wz0790

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Stanford University, 2019.

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Constructing the Sacred Archive

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