Pyramid of Djedkare-Isesi

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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 5
ORIGINAL OWNER OR SPONSOR OF STRUCTURE (Owner/Builder)	Title Djedkare-Isesi
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 5
ROYAL REIGN OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First King)	Title Djedkare-Isesi
SITE	Title South Saqqara
MODERN SCHOLAR/EXPLORER FIRST DOCUMENTING STRUCTURE (Discoverer)	Title Lepsius
YEAR OF REDISCOVERY IN MODERN TIMES (Years)	Title 1842-43
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 created for the 3D Saqqara Project, 2013; based on polygon data from Bresciani and Giammarusti (2003) added to and emended by GIS Supervisor and Senior Surveyor Emanuele Brienza (2010)
COMMENTS ON 2D DATA (Annotation)	Title Polygon based on ground plan published in Lehner (1997: 153)
BASEMAPS/IMAGERY UTILIZED FOR GEO-REFERENCING 2D BASE DATA (Maps Used)	Title Geo-referenced on MHR Le Caire map H23 combined with Microsoft Streets basemap
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL HEIGHT OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Height Original(m))	Title main pyramid 52; cult pyramid 16
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL LENGTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Length Original(m))	Title main pyramid 78.5; cult pyramid 15.5
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL WIDTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Width Original(m))	Title main pyramid 78.5; cult pyramid 15.5
SOURCES/REFERENCE USED AS BASIS FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION (3D Data Source)	Title Miroslav Verner, The Pyramids: The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt’s Great Monuments (New York: Grove Press, 2001); Mark Lehner, The Complete Pyramids (London: Thames and Hudson, 1997)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL ENCLOSURE WALL DIMENSIONS	Title Approximately 180x105 for the main monument enclosure, not including the satellite pyramid
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL EXTERIOR MATERIAL (3D Texture)	Title StoneA white limestone casing was preserved on the north side of pyramid, so a limestone texture was added to the exterior of the main pyramid; enclosure walls and additional pyramids were given a generic limestone texture, not reflecting any detail of stone courses, etc.
UNCERTAINTY LEVEL FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION	Title 3.0
Elevation - placement in model ASL	Title 44.0
Discussion of virtual reconstruction and interpretative choices	Title The size and slope of the main pyramid were based on measurements in Lehner (1997: 17); the location for the queen's pyramid and satellite pyramid was based on the plan published in Lehner (1997:153); the enclosure walls and pyramid temple were only modeled in schematically based on the ground plan, no details were added and an arbitrary height of 5m was used for all walls and buildings, merely to represent a general height, not based on archaeological remains; Verner (2001: 324-329) was consulted for additional information and detailsThe Djedkare 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 5; 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/ys196pz7429

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