Lepsius 29 (XXIX); Pyramid of Menkauhor?

Sullivan, Elaine A.

Lepsius 29 (XXIX); Pyramid of Menkauhor?

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Type of resource	three dimensional object

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Creator	Sullivan, Elaine A.

Bibliographic information

Contained on project page	Title Model Metadata: Dynasty 5
ORIGINAL OWNER OR SPONSOR OF STRUCTURE (Owner/Builder)	Title Menkauhor?
TYPE OF MONUMENT (Type)	Title Pyramid
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 Menkauhor?
SITE	Title 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 2016.0
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 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 Assigned to Dynasty V date based on re-excavations done by Hawass (2010)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL HEIGHT OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Height Original(m))	Title 35 (estimated)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL LENGTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Length Original(m))	Title 52.0
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL WIDTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Width Original(m))	Title 52.0
SOURCES/REFERENCE USED AS BASIS FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION (3D Data Source)	Title Zahi Hawass, “The excavation of the headless pyramid, Lepsius XXIX,” in Perspectives on ancient Egypt: Studies in honor of Edward Brovarski, ed. Zahi Hawass, Peter der Manuelian, and Ramadan Hussein, Supplément aux Annales du Service des antiquités de l’Egypte, 40 (Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, 2010), 153–70
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL EXTERIOR MATERIAL (3D Texture)	Title Stone
UNCERTAINTY LEVEL FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION	Title 3.0
Elevation - placement in model ASL	Title 52.85
Discussion of virtual reconstruction and interpretative choices	Title This monument is frequently referred to as the “headless pyramid,” as foundations are all that remains and there is no information otherwise on the appearance of the monument or its original height; Hawass (2010: 155) gave measurements as 52m in length per side, so the height (if the monument was ever completed) was estimated in the model at 35m, based on height of Khendjer pyramid, with a similar base size; the pyramid reconstruction is very schematic using base dimensions and a plain limestone pattern (not courses) to indicate that even that detail remains unclearThe Lepsius 29 (XXIX) 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/yv152qk6685

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