Constructing the sacred : visibility and ritual landscape at the Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara / Elaine Sullivan.

Format:

Datafile

Author/Creator:

Sullivan, Elaine A., creator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sacred space.

History.

Tombs.

Burial.

Ṣaqqārah (Egypt)--Antiquities--Pictorial works.

Ṣaqqārah (Egypt).

Burial--Egypt--Ṣaqqārah--History--Pictorial works.

Tombs--Egypt--Ṣaqqārah--History--Pictorial works.

Sacred space--Egypt--Ṣaqqārah--History--Pictorial works.

Ṣaqqārah (Egypt)--Antiquities--Interactive multimedia.

Burial--Egypt--Ṣaqqārah--History--Interactive multimedia.

Tombs--Egypt--Ṣaqqārah--History--Interactive multimedia.

Sacred space--Egypt--Ṣaqqārah--History--Interactive multimedia.

Antiquities.

Egypt--Ṣaqqārah.

Genre:

Interactive architectural walkthroughs.

History.

Interactive multimedia.

Models (Representations)

Pictorial works.

Video recordings.

Academic theses.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : color

polychrome

Place of Publication:

[Stanford, California] : Stanford University Press, 2020.

System Details:

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Summary:

"The long-lived burial site of Saqqara, Egypt, has been studied for more than a century. But the site we visit today is a palimpsest, the result of thousands of years of change, both architectural and environmental. Elaine Sullivan uses 3D technologies to peel away the layers of history at the site, revealing how changes to sight lines, skylines, and vistas at different periods of Saqqara's millennia-long use influenced sacred ceremonies and ritual meaning at the necropolis. The author considers not just individual buildings, but re-contextualizes built spaces within the larger ancient landscape, engaging in materially-focused investigations of how monuments shape community memories and a culturally-specific sense of place. Despite our modern impression of the permanent and enduring nature of the site, this publication instead highlights that the monuments and their meanings were fluid, as the Egyptians modified, abandoned, resurrected, forgot, or incorporated them into new contexts. Virtually placing the reader within a series of landscapes no longer possible to experience, the author flips the top-down view prevalent in archeology to a more human-centered perspective, focusing on the dynamic evolution of an ancient site that is typically viewed as static"

Credits:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page of review copy (Stanford University Press, viewed February 24, 2020).

ISBN:

9781503603332

1503603334

OCLC:

1141736332