Conservation and Documentation of the Wall Paintings at Red Monastery, Conservation and Documentation of St. Anthony Wall Paintings, Historic Cairo Architectural Mapping, Coptic Icons Documentation
UV Light: Long Hall Left, burial procession leading to Imentet, a kneeling man on a skiff presenting an ox's heart, in front of him is Menna's widow, Anubis holding an Ankh and was-scepter, two women impersonating Isis and Nephthys, and sarcophagus being pulled
Location:
Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, Thebes, and Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Topic:
Art, Ancient--Egypt, Tombs--Egypt--Thebes (Extinct City), Mural painting and decoration, Egyptian -- Conservation and restoration, Funeral rites and ceremonies--Egypt, Deities, Ritual in art, Ceremonial objects, Overseer and Scribe of the Lord of Two Lands, and Overseer and Scribe of Fields of Amun
Collection:
Conservation and Documentation of the Tomb Chapel of Menna (TT 69)
UV Light: Long Hall Left, burial procession, the "Nine Friends", shrines, and Sacred District with the Four Sons of Horus, man receiving a chest, two men pulling a sarcophagus, a bier, and a shrine-shaped catafalque
Location:
Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, Thebes, and Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Topic:
Art, Ancient--Egypt, Tombs--Egypt--Thebes (Extinct City), Mural painting and decoration, Egyptian -- Conservation and restoration, Funeral rites and ceremonies--Egypt, Deities, Ritual in art, Ceremonial objects, Overseer and Scribe of the Lord of Two Lands, and Overseer and Scribe of Fields of Amun
Collection:
Conservation and Documentation of the Tomb Chapel of Menna (TT 69)
UV Light: Long Hall Left, burial procession, the Four Sons of Horus, a boat, a lector priest reciting a ritual, and a kneeling woman representing the sister of Osiris
Location:
Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, Thebes, and Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Topic:
Art, Ancient--Egypt, Tombs--Egypt--Thebes (Extinct City), Mural painting and decoration, Egyptian -- Conservation and restoration, Funeral rites and ceremonies--Egypt, Deities, Ritual in art, Priests--Egypt, Overseer and Scribe of the Lord of Two Lands, and Overseer and Scribe of Fields of Amun
Collection:
Conservation and Documentation of the Tomb Chapel of Menna (TT 69)
UV Light: Long Hall Left, Menna, Thoth, Horus, and Ma'at's head in the Weighing of the Heart scene, and Osiris wearing the Atef-crown in the Judgement of the Dead
Location:
Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, Thebes, and Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Topic:
Art, Ancient--Egypt, Tombs--Egypt--Thebes (Extinct City), Mural painting and decoration, Egyptian -- Conservation and restoration, Funeral rites and ceremonies--Egypt, Deities, Afterlife, Overseer and Scribe of the Lord of Two Lands, and Overseer and Scribe of Fields of Amun
Collection:
Conservation and Documentation of the Tomb Chapel of Menna (TT 69)
UV Light: Long Hall Left, burial procession, mourning women, ox slaughter scene, and women impersonating Isis and Nephthys in a skiff
Location:
Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, Thebes, and Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Topic:
Art, Ancient--Egypt, Tombs--Egypt--Thebes (Extinct City), Mural painting and decoration, Egyptian -- Conservation and restoration, Funeral rites and ceremonies--Egypt, Animal sacrifice in art, Deities, Ritual in art, Overseer and Scribe of the Lord of Two Lands, and Overseer and Scribe of Fields of Amun
Collection:
Conservation and Documentation of the Tomb Chapel of Menna (TT 69)
Sarcophagus fragments assembly, right foot end, fragment with ba-bird with human arms raised in adoration, standing on an oval containing a mummiform figure in sandbox (surface moistened)
Location:
Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, and Kings, Valley of the
Time Period:
New Kingdom and 20th Dynasty
Topic:
Art, Ancient--Egypt, Afterlife, Sarcophagi, Fragmentation--Antiquities, and Ramesses VI, King of Egypt
Francis Dzikowski photographing the sarcophagus box floor from top of winch
Location:
Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, and Kings, Valley of the
Time Period:
New Kingdom and 20th Dynasty
Topic:
Art, Ancient--Egypt, Sarcophagi, Fragmentation--Antiquities, Funerary monuments, Tombs--Egypt, Mural painting and decoration, and Ramesses VI, King of Egypt
Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, Thebes, and Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Topic:
Art, Ancient--Egypt, Tombs--Egypt--Thebes (Extinct City), Mural painting and decoration, Egyptian -- Conservation and restoration, Wildlife-related recreation, Overseer and Scribe of the Lord of Two Lands, and Overseer and Scribe of Fields of Amun
Collection:
Conservation and Documentation of the Tomb Chapel of Menna (TT 69)
UV Light: Long Hall Left, space between the Fishing and Fowling scene and Voyage to Abydos
Location:
Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, Thebes, and Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Topic:
Art, Ancient--Egypt, Tombs--Egypt--Thebes (Extinct City), Mural painting and decoration, Egyptian -- Conservation and restoration, Overseer and Scribe of the Lord of Two Lands, and Overseer and Scribe of Fields of Amun
Collection:
Conservation and Documentation of the Tomb Chapel of Menna (TT 69)
Conservators working in tomb, on Long Hall Left wall
Location:
Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, Thebes, and Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Time Period:
New Kingdom and 18th Dynasty
Topic:
Art, Ancient--Egypt, Tombs--Egypt--Thebes (Extinct City), Mural painting and decoration, Egyptian -- Conservation and restoration, Personnel, Overseer and Scribe of the Lord of Two Lands, and Overseer and Scribe of Fields of Amun
Collection:
Conservation and Documentation of the Tomb Chapel of Menna (TT 69)
UV Light: Broad Hall Far Right, the preliminary offering of the "Opening of the Mouth" ritual showing wab-priests and sem-priests, a man (most likely Se, Menna's son) presenting an offering, banqueters and offering bearers
Location:
Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, Thebes, and Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Topic:
Art, Ancient--Egypt, Tombs--Egypt--Thebes (Extinct City), Mural painting and decoration, Egyptian -- Conservation and restoration, Ritual in art, Filial piety in art, Ceremonial objects, Funeral rites and ceremonies--Egypt, Priests--Egypt, Overseer and Scribe of the Lord of Two Lands, and Overseer and Scribe of Fields of Amun
Collection:
Conservation and Documentation of the Tomb Chapel of Menna (TT 69)
Inner sarcophagus fragments documentation: traces of decoration on upper surface of fragment, foot end of lid
Location:
Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, and Kings, Valley of the
Time Period:
New Kingdom and 20th Dynasty
Topic:
Art, Ancient--Egypt, Afterlife, Damage--Antiquities, Tombs--Egypt, Funerary monuments, Sarcophagi, Fragmentation--Antiquities, and Ramesses VI, King of Egypt
Inner sarcophagus fragments documentation: Interior of north foot end fragment of lid
Location:
Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, and Kings, Valley of the
Time Period:
New Kingdom and 20th Dynasty
Topic:
Art, Ancient--Egypt, Afterlife, Damage--Antiquities, Tombs--Egypt, Funerary monuments, Sarcophagi, Fragmentation--Antiquities, and Ramesses VI, King of Egypt
Inner sarcophagus fragments documentation: Exterior of north foot end fragment of lid
Location:
Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, and Kings, Valley of the
Time Period:
New Kingdom and 20th Dynasty
Topic:
Art, Ancient--Egypt, Afterlife, Damage--Antiquities, Tombs--Egypt, Funerary monuments, Sarcophagi, Fragmentation--Antiquities, and Ramesses VI, King of Egypt
Inner sarcophagus fragments documentation: Sectional view of decorated foot end lid fragment
Location:
Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, and Kings, Valley of the
Time Period:
New Kingdom and 20th Dynasty
Topic:
Art, Ancient--Egypt, Afterlife, Damage--Antiquities, Tombs--Egypt, Funerary monuments, Sarcophagi, Fragmentation--Antiquities, and Ramesses VI, King of Egypt
Southeast corner of sarcophagus box assembly showing fiberglass support rods in
gaps
Location:
Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, and Kings, Valley of the
Time Period:
New Kingdom and 20th Dynasty
Topic:
Art, Ancient--Egypt, Afterlife, Sarcophagi, Fragmentation--Antiquities, Tombs--Egypt, Mural painting and decoration, Inscriptions, and Ramesses VI, King of Egypt
North side of burial chamber with re-assembled sarcophagus box
Location:
Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, and Kings, Valley of the
Time Period:
New Kingdom and 20th Dynasty
Topic:
Art, Ancient--Egypt, Afterlife, Sarcophagi, Fragmentation--Antiquities, Tombs--Egypt, Mural painting and decoration, Inscriptions, and Ramesses VI, King of Egypt
South side of re-assembled sarcophagus box, looking north
Location:
Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, and Kings, Valley of the
Time Period:
New Kingdom and 20th Dynasty
Topic:
Art, Ancient--Egypt, Afterlife, Sarcophagi, Fragmentation--Antiquities, Tombs--Egypt, Mural painting and decoration, Inscriptions, and Ramesses VI, King of Egypt
Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, Thebes, and Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Topic:
Art, Ancient--Egypt, Tombs--Egypt--Thebes (Extinct City), Mural painting and decoration, Egyptian -- Conservation and restoration, Wildlife-related recreation, Overseer and Scribe of the Lord of Two Lands, and Overseer and Scribe of Fields of Amun
Collection:
Conservation and Documentation of the Tomb Chapel of Menna (TT 69)
UV Light: Long Hall Left, Henuttawy (holding lotus flowers) holding Menna while he fishes
Location:
Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, Thebes, and Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Topic:
Art, Ancient--Egypt, Tombs--Egypt--Thebes (Extinct City), Mural painting and decoration, Egyptian -- Conservation and restoration, Wildlife-related recreation, Overseer and Scribe of the Lord of Two Lands, and Overseer and Scribe of Fields of Amun
Collection:
Conservation and Documentation of the Tomb Chapel of Menna (TT 69)