Alphios and Arethusa mosaic during conservation
- Description:
- Alphios and Arethusa mosaic during conservation
- Author:
- ARCE Project Staff, Vincent, Robert, and Dobrowolski, Jaroslaw
- Date Created:
- March-June, 2003
- Collection:
- Greco-Roman Museum Mosaic Conservation
- Series:
- Alphios and Arethusa Mosaic
- Location:
- Tell Timai, Al Mansurah, Alexandria, Egypt, Thmuis, and Al Iskandarīyah
- Time Period:
- Hellenistic Period and Ptolemaic Period
- Topic:
- Alpheus, Arethusa, Greek mythology, Greek gods, and Art, Greco-Roman
- Cultural Object:
- Stonework, Mosaics, Tesserae, Stonework, Mosaics, Tesserae, Stonework, Mosaics, Tesserae, Stonework, Mosaics, Tesserae, Stonework, Mosaics, Tesserae, Stonework, Mosaics, and Tesserae
- Fieldwork activities:
- personnel, conservation (process), field tools, work site, stone-working, documentation (activity), personnel, conservation (process), field tools, work site, stone-working, documentation (activity), personnel, conservation (process), field tools, work site, stone-working, documentation (activity), personnel, conservation (process), field tools, work site, stone-working, documentation (activity), personnel, conservation (process), field tools, work site, stone-working, documentation (activity), personnel, conservation (process), field tools, work site, stone-working, and documentation (activity)
- Genre:
- color photographs
- Creative Commons License:
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- Rights Statement:
- Users must agree to abide by the terms and conditions of the CC BY NC SA license before using ARCE materials and must provide the following credit line: "Reproduction courtesy of the American Research Center in Egypt, Inc. (ARCE). This project was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)."
- Project History:
- Within the walls of the Greco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, Egypt are three intricate mosaics of very fine quality between the second and third century, BCE. Under the auspices of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE), Father Michele Piccirillo of the Studium Biblicum Franciscum directed the conservation of the mosaics. Notably, it resulted in the public viewing of the stag hunt mosaic for the first time since its discovery. Conservation work was made possible with the support of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (formerly the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities).
- Funding Agency:
- Greco-Roman Museum Mosaic Conservation project was made possible with funding by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Grant No. 263-G-00-93-00089-00 and administered by the Egyptian Antiquities Project (EAP) of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE).