AHIS170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Jasper, Malachite, Djed
27 Aug 2018
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* new kingdom temples, and those of later periods, are the best preserved examples from ancient. * further south: during early dynasty 18, shift from limestone to sandstone good access/transport from sandstone quarries at gebel el-silsila along nile river. * during new kingdom, some earlier mudbrick temples rebuilt in stone. Some older structures dismantled and used as fill e. g. , white chapel of senwosret i (dyn. * other materials used for construction of various architectural elements: * hard stone: granite, used for cornice, dado, doorways, foundations, gateways, thresholds, obeslisks and their bases, columns, and pillars. Red quartzite, travertine (calcite/egyptian alabaster), and basalt used for special parts of temple - e. g. , chapel walls. * wood: doors, and flagpoles sourced from levant. * mudbrick: storage areas, administrative buildings, and temple complex enclosure walls. * spherical hammers: made of hard stone (e. g. , diorite), used to pound trenches around stone blocks to extract them from bedrock.
