Tomb of Nesdjehuty

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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: Dynasties 26-30
ORIGINAL OWNER OR SPONSOR OF STRUCTURE (Owner/Builder)	Title Nesdjehuty
TYPE OF MONUMENT (Type)	Title Temple tomb
TEMPORAL PERIOD OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First Period)	Title Late Period
DYNASTY OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First Dynasty)	Title Dynasty 26
ROYAL REIGN OF ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION (First King)	Title Psamtek I
SITE	Title Saqqara
MODERN SCHOLAR/EXPLORER FIRST DOCUMENTING STRUCTURE (Discoverer)	Title Quibell
YEAR OF REDISCOVERY IN MODERN TIMES (Years)	Title 3167.0
TYPE OF STRUCTURE (3D Model Type)	Title Custom model
DATE OF MODEL CONSTRUCTION OR UPDATE (3D Model Date)	Title 2016, 2019
NAME OF 3D MODELER	Title Sophie Short, 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)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL HEIGHT OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Height Original(m))	Title 7+m (estimated)
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL LENGTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Length Original(m))	Title 30.0
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL WIDTH OF STRUCTURE IN METERS (Width Original(m))	Title 19.5
SOURCES/REFERENCE USED AS BASIS FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION (3D Data Source)	Title James Quibell, Excavations at Saqqara (1908–9, 1909–10) IV: The Monastery of Apa Jeremias (Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 1912), https://archive.org/details/cu31924028671273 and Kenneth Kitchen, “Memphite Tomb Chapels in the New Kingdom and Later,” in Festschrift Elmar Edel, 12. März 1979, Ägypten und Altes Testament 1 (Bamberg: Görg, 1979), 272–84
DESCRIPTION – ORIGINAL EXTERIOR MATERIAL (3D Texture)	Title Limestone
UNCERTAINTY LEVEL FOR 3D MODEL CONSTRUCTION	Title 3.0
Elevation - placement in model ASL	Title 45.0
Discussion of virtual reconstruction and interpretative choices	Title The model is based on the foundations and lower courses of masonry of the structure excavated by Quibell (1912: 30–33, pl. LIX), which included a pylon, an outer and inner court, and five rear chapels. The remains of the superstructure excavated by Quibell were meager, as Coptic constructions were built a meter above the temple pavement, presumably destroying much of the original superstructure, and only a single column in the outer court was noted in the original Quibell plan (although five column bases were preserved in the inner court).In the reconstruction, columns were added to the outer columned hall based on typical temple tomb construction from the earlier New Kingdom and following Kitchen’s suggested reconstruction (1979: 284 fig. 15). A simple gateway was added between the columns, also reconstructed by Kitchen (1979: 284 fig. 15); this is hypothetical and based on traditional form of temple tomb at Saqqara. The heights of the various courts and columns are completely hypothetical, based on New Kingdom temple tombs of similar form. The pylon was designed as possessing an extremely thick towers, as interpreted by Kitchen (following his suggested ground plan); it was reconstructed in the model as standing 7+m tall (based on the size and thickness of the towers), similar in height to that of the suggested size for the pylon of the Dynasty 26 tomb of Bakenrenef.
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/zb618mg2201

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