Sneferu Pyramid Temple Passage Images from the New Kingdom

Griffith Institute Archive and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology provide images of the west wall passage in the Sneferu Pyramid Temple from the New Kingdom period. The dataset consists of 22.6 MB of files in PDF, JPG, SVG, and TIF formats. It was last updated on 2026-04-28 by Chloe Agar and is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Use Cases

• Analyze architectural features of pyramid temple passages based on the described wall imagery.
• Study artistic styles and iconography from the New Kingdom period based on the described wall art.
• Digitally preserve and document archaeological site details from the Sneferu Pyramid Temple.

Strengths

• Includes imagery from two established institutions: the Griffith Institute and the Penn Museum.
• Available in multiple high-resolution formats (JPG, TIF, SVG, PDF) totaling 22.6 MB.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Griffith Institute Archive; University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Collection Method

Likely contains photographic or scanned documentation of the archaeological site.

Time Range

New Kingdom period (likely 18th Dynasty, c. 1550–1292 BCE).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 10:22:31; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Sneferu Pyramid Temple, Egypt.