The Geometrical Pattern in the Royal Architecture of Ancient Egypt during the Middle Kingdom

The royal architecture of Ancient Egypt evolved into an obviously aesthetic way all through its history: from the primitive royal tombs at Umm el-Qa'ab through the pyramids of the Old Kingdom and the great temples of the Middle Kingdom to the Ptolemaic temples built along the Nile bank. The pre...

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Autor: Gardón-Ramos, Víctor|||0000-0001-8851-1101
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:249153
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/249153
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Royal
Architecture
Geometrical
Pattern
Ancient
Egypt
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Sumario:The royal architecture of Ancient Egypt evolved into an obviously aesthetic way all through its history: from the primitive royal tombs at Umm el-Qa'ab through the pyramids of the Old Kingdom and the great temples of the Middle Kingdom to the Ptolemaic temples built along the Nile bank. The present paper pretends to expose the systematic use of a geometrical pattern, emerged during the Thinite Age and Old Kingdom, to design and define the main proportions of the royal architecture of the Middle Kingdom.