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What are the unique design features of the Step Pyramid of Djoser?
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This first Egyptian pyramid consisted of six mastabas (of decreasing size) built atop one another in what were clearly revisions and developments of the original plan.
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information quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Djoser
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The step pyramid (or proto-pyramid) is considered to be the earliest large-scale stone construction
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information quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Djoser
3.The Enclosure Wall
4.The Great Trench
5.Roofed colonnade entrance
6.The South Court
7.The South Tomb
8.The Step Pyramid
9.Pyramid Substructure
10.The Burial Chamber
11.The North Temple and Serdab Court
12.The Heb-sed Court
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The main excavator of the Step Pyramid was Jean-Phillipe Lauer, a French architect who reconstructed key portions of the complex2. The complex covers 15ha and is about 2.5 times as large as the Old Kingdom town of Heirakonpolis3. Several features of the complex differ from those of later Old Kingdom pyramids. The pyramid temple is situated at the north side of the pyramid, whereas in later pyramids it is on the east side. Also, the Djoser complex is built on a North-South axis whereas later complexes utilize an East-West axis5. Furthermore, the Djoser complex has one niched enclosure wall, whereas later pyramids have two enclosure walls with the outside one being smooth and the inside one sometimes niched5.
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information quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Djoser
These are the unique designs of the step pyramid
What design features did Imhotep creates that made him Egypts greatest architect?
1.Imhotem designed the the Pyramid of Djoser
2. "He may have been responsible for the first known use of columns in architecture"
3. He is credited for inventing "inventing the method of a stone-dressed building during Djoser's reign"
4. He would have use walling, flooring, lintels, and jambs for building
The information quoted on Imhotep was quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imhotep
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imhotep
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Djoser
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"The complex is surrounded by a wall of fine white Tura limestone, which when built, measured some 10.5 meters (34 feet) high and was 1,645 meters (5,397 ft) long. Within was an area of about 15 ha (37 acres), which would have been the size of a small town during the Old Kingdom. It contained a vast complex of functional, as well as what we believe were dummy buildings, including pavilions of the North and South, large tumuli and terraces, finely carved facades, ribbed and fluted columns, stairways, platforms, shrines chapels and life-size statues. There was even a replica of the pyramid substructure, called the South Tomb, but the centerpiece was, of course, the Step Pyramid itself, rising to a height of about 60 meters (197 feet), in six steps and containing some 330,400 cubic meters (11,668,000 cubic feet) of clay and stone. Many of the structures contain Another View of the Djoser Step Pyramid elements that become familiar forms, but here we see for the first time. Of course, there is the pyramid structure itself, but also we see the first colonnade, the first Hypostyle, portico, life-sized statues, torus-moldings and cavetto cornice. In fact, many of these elements survived as members of the hieroglyphic sign-list of sacred buildings.
The pyramid itself was perhaps not imagined, in its initial construction, as a step pyramid, but rather as a large, square mastaba. However, the fact that it is square, whereas most all mastaba style tombs are usually rectangular, suggests that the builders may have, from the beginning, planned a stepped pyramid. "
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| November 02, 2009 12:20 AM |
1.
----quote----
This first Egyptian pyramid consisted of six mastabas (of decreasing size) built atop one another in what were clearly revisions and developments of the original plan.
----quote----
information quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Djoser
2.
----quote----
The step pyramid (or proto-pyramid) is considered to be the earliest large-scale stone construction
-----quote----
information quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Djoser
3.The Enclosure Wall
4.The Great Trench
5.Roofed colonnade entrance
6.The South Court
7.The South Tomb
8.The Step Pyramid
9.Pyramid Substructure
10.The Burial Chamber
11.The North Temple and Serdab Court
12.The Heb-sed Court
----quote----
The main excavator of the Step Pyramid was Jean-Phillipe Lauer, a French architect who reconstructed key portions of the complex2. The complex covers 15ha and is about 2.5 times as large as the Old Kingdom town of Heirakonpolis3. Several features of the complex differ from those of later Old Kingdom pyramids. The pyramid temple is situated at the north side of the pyramid, whereas in later pyramids it is on the east side. Also, the Djoser complex is built on a North-South axis whereas later complexes utilize an East-West axis5. Furthermore, the Djoser complex has one niched enclosure wall, whereas later pyramids have two enclosure walls with the outside one being smooth and the inside one sometimes niched5.
----quote----
information quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Djoser
These are the unique designs of the step pyramid
What design features did Imhotep creates that made him Egypts greatest architect?
1.Imhotem designed the the Pyramid of Djoser
2. "He may have been responsible for the first known use of columns in architecture"
3. He is credited for inventing "inventing the method of a stone-dressed building during Djoser's reign"
4. He would have use walling, flooring, lintels, and jambs for building
The information quoted on Imhotep was quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imhotep
Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imhotep
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Djoser
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November 02, 2009 02:34 AM
The unique design features of the Step Pyramid of Djoser is the fact that it is square, whereas most all mastaba style tombs are usually rectangular. -quote-
"The complex is surrounded by a wall of fine white Tura limestone, which when built, measured some 10.5 meters (34 feet) high and was 1,645 meters (5,397 ft) long. Within was an area of about 15 ha (37 acres), which would have been the size of a small town during the Old Kingdom. It contained a vast complex of functional, as well as what we believe were dummy buildings, including pavilions of the North and South, large tumuli and terraces, finely carved facades, ribbed and fluted columns, stairways, platforms, shrines chapels and life-size statues. There was even a replica of the pyramid substructure, called the South Tomb, but the centerpiece was, of course, the Step Pyramid itself, rising to a height of about 60 meters (197 feet), in six steps and containing some 330,400 cubic meters (11,668,000 cubic feet) of clay and stone. Many of the structures contain Another View of the Djoser Step Pyramid elements that become familiar forms, but here we see for the first time. Of course, there is the pyramid structure itself, but also we see the first colonnade, the first Hypostyle, portico, life-sized statues, torus-moldings and cavetto cornice. In fact, many of these elements survived as members of the hieroglyphic sign-list of sacred buildings.
The pyramid itself was perhaps not imagined, in its initial construction, as a step pyramid, but rather as a large, square mastaba. However, the fact that it is square, whereas most all mastaba style tombs are usually rectangular, suggests that the builders may have, from the beginning, planned a stepped pyramid. "
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