Abusir Closeup

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Abstract

Diagonal alignments hypothetically linking Abusir pyramids with Heliopolis placed on the 3D model (left) and on modern satellite imagery (right)

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Type of resource	still image
Extent	1 jpg file

Bibliographic information

Contained on project page	Title Cosmic Connections & Symbolic Alignments
Source	Title Render by Savannah Dawson. Map based on Miroslav Verner and Valdimír Bruna, “Why Was the Fifth Dynasty Cemetery Founded at Abusir?” in Old Kingdom, New Perspectives : Egyptian Art and Archaeology 2750—2150 BC, ed. Nigel Strudwick and Helen Strudwick (Oxford: Oxbow, 2011), fig. 4b. Satellite imagery, copyright 2018 DigitalGlobe, courtesy Google Earth.
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/ys548hp4920

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Stanford University, 2019.

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