pyramid building vocabulary. mastaba: mud-brick structure above an underground tomb the first type...
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Pyramid BuildingVocabulary
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Mastaba:
• mud-brick structure above an underground tomb• the first type of tomb for pharaohs• contained a chapel and a statue of the deceased
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Step pyramid:
• designed by Imhotep (the first recorded architect in history) for King Zoser
• (built in the Third Dynasty- 2750 B.C.)
King ZoserImhotep
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Pyramid:
• tomb for pharaohs• flat, square base with 4 sloped, triangular sides
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Temenos wall:
• 30 feet high wall built• surrounded the pyramid
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Stone used for pyramid building:
• softer limestone- for basic structure• harder limestone- for outer casing• granite- (very hard) used for burial
chambers and porticullises• dolerite- (extremely hard) used to
pound through outer stone• alabaster- (fine opaque stone) used
for pottery, jewelry and floor tiles
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Wooden wedge:
• placed in chiseled area of stone
• water was poured over it to make it swell and split the stone
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Plumbline:
• stone at the end of string
• used to determine vertical level of the object
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Sledge:
• sled rolled over logs• used to move stones to or from a barge, or to a
site
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Causeway:
• simple road over which stones were moved
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Friction:
• the heat created by the friction of the sledge being moved over the causeway was so great that water, milk or mud was often poured over the sand surface to help cool it
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Ramps:
• these huge structures were built of stone
• needed to get large stones to high areas on the pyramid
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Workers:
• hundreds were paid to work on the pyramid all year long
• during the inundation, or flood season, many thousands more of farmers who could not yet work in their fields were also paid to work on the pyramid
• very few slaves worked on it
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Shafts:
• small tunnels, or passageways were kept open for different needs
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False doors:
• these were sometimes intended to trick potential grave robbers
• sometimes they were intended to be the doors through which spirits or gods could enter
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Portcullises:
• made of granite
• sealed the entrance to the burial chamber
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Burial chamber:
• where the pharaoh’s sarcophagus was placed
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Capstone:
• the final stone that was placed on the very top of the pyramid
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Inundation:
• the annual flooding of the Nile between July and November
• predicted by Sirius, the Dog Star
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Site:
• area chosen on which the pyramid would be built (north, south, east, or west)
• always on the West Bank- for the land of the dead
West Bank at Thebes