Reconstruction Progress (Part 12)

HedSed Court, part of 'Wave' Pyramid, complete with Ancient Egyptians.  In progress.

I still can't find any CAD drawings of this site.  I'm leaving the colonnade for last, but have started parts of it.  The sketches I have found are truly inaccurate.  Using photographs, I think I'll be able to get pretty close to what was built.

Regarding the areas that have an abundance of fill, I think this was used to build the ramps, to bring material up to the Pyramid, although the actual blocks used don't seem that large.  Being that this was the first Pyramid, I think there are many clues about how Pyramids were constructed here.  I hope to take the volume of fill and show how it was put to use as a ramp.  Also, I think the Pyramids were built in a spiral from the center out, rather than having finished exterior and then 'suspending' ramps there, I think it was built by keeping the center the highest point and spiraling out from there allowing the exterior finishes to happen as they were approached by the ramp. 

I think the beginning of the ramp might of been near the existing entrance to the colonnade and worked it's way around the Great Court.  The culvert being a source for limestone as it too 'spirals'.

Progress: Putting in of textures including land, Pyramid, roofs.  Adding of HedSed Court.  To do: finish HedSed Court and Colonnade, refine texture on Pyramid.

Reconstruction by Nicholas Buccalo, copyright 2008.

I will post updates to my reconstruction of the Djozer Pyramid ('Step' Pyramid aka Wave Pyramid-:-)

Here I have completed the exterior perimeter wall at the correct scale. 

The following are rough 'off-site' dimension calculations.  The perimeter wall occupies an area of about 15 ha, is 1,645 Meters long (includes all 4 sides), is ± 10.5 M high; The 'bastions' project out from the main wall and are seperated by ± 4M from the next 'bastions'.  They are ± 7.48 Meters center to center and 'project' about 2.8M.  The 14 'fake' entrances align with the outside surface of the smaller 'bastions' but are the same width as the South West Entrance.

The SW Entrance is ± 10.38 Meters wide and projects from the main lateral wall by 5.040 Meters meaning it projects an additional ± 2.24 Meters beyond the face of the 'bastions'.

The tops of the 'bastions' are cut in such a way that one would expect it to be a 'guard' post or at least a ceremonial post of sorts, perhaps with a projecting banner.  Since the tops of the original perimeter wall is no longer with us that will remain speculation, unless some other wall can be found with 'mounting blocks' remaining.

Bastions: The Architect and Builders went to a lot of trouble to build these bastions.  Why?  They didn't need them as the interior Great Court has none, therefore it wasn't a structural consideration.  To me, they are sized just large enough for a ceremonial guard and perhaps a vertical banner.  I will be curious if a banner is added at each station, if the view of the Pyramid is blocked, which might support the notion that the surrounding culvert was also used as part of the procession before entry into the Great Court.