Assembling proper right side of sarcophagus box
- Description:
- Assembling proper right side of sarcophagus box
- Physical Description:
- 29 photographs
- Author:
- Brock, Edwin
- Date Created:
- July 2001 - June 2003
- Collection:
- Ramesses VI (KV9) Sarcophagus Conservation
- Series:
- Conservation work in progress
- Location:
- Kings, Valley of the, Luxor, Egypt, and Al Uqşur
- Time Period:
- New Kingdom and 20th Dynasty
- Topic:
- Ramesses VI, King of Egypt, Art, Ancient--Egypt, and Afterlife
- Cultural Object:
- Sarcophagi, Tombs--Egypt, Sarcophagi, Tombs--Egypt, Sarcophagi, and Tombs--Egypt
- Fieldwork activities:
- drilling (process), infills (filled lacunae areas), assembling (additive and joining process), transporting (antiquities), personnel, winches, conservation (process), drilling (process), infills (filled lacunae areas), assembling (additive and joining process), transporting (antiquities), personnel, winches, conservation (process), drilling (process), infills (filled lacunae areas), assembling (additive and joining process), transporting (antiquities), personnel, winches, and conservation (process)
- Genre:
- color photographs and black-and-white 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:
- Located in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Ramesses VI’s tomb once held hundreds of stone sarcophagus fragments, the result of the demolition of its sarcophagi in antiquity. Decorated on the exterior with painted figures and text, the mummiform inner stone sarcophagus fragments were reassembled by project director Dr. Edwin C. Brock and his team under the auspices of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE). The face of the lid, taken from the tomb in the 19th century and currently in the British Museum, was replicated and incorporated into the sarcophagus reassembly, thereby ensuring its preservation within its original context. 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:
- Ramesses VI (KV9) Sarcophagus Conservation project was made possible with funding by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Grant No. 263-G-00-93-0089-00 (formerly 263-0000-G-00-3089-00) and administered by the Egyptian Antiquities Project (EAP) of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE).
- Abstract:
- Dany Roy and Lotfi Khaled suggested that some of the smaller gaps between fragments in the box assembly should be filled with lime mortar, appropriately tinted, in order to increase the stability of the assembly as well as for aesthetic reasons.In order to insure better structural integrity for the box assembly several gaps were filled in with lime and sand mortar., For more information on the assembly of the sarcophagus box, see section V in the Final Report., The project had rented steel beam scaffolding and a winch from Dany Roy for maneuvering groups of assembled fragments into place on the platform. It was constructed so that movement was possible on tracks in 3 directions, side to side and front to back, as well as raising and lowering by the winch mechanism itself., Prior to the actual assembly of the sides of the box, it was necessary to separate the fragments into groups of joins and determine exactly where connections with the floor assembly could be made. Assembly of fragments into groups followed the cleaning of dirt from joint surfaces. Epoxy adhesive was used as adhesive. In order to better accommodate the fragment groups being glued, a larger sand box was constructed on the temporary platform at the west end of the central pit floor., and Fiberglass rods were used to add vertical support. As the fragment at the left foot corner that joined the side group did not have a very secure surface of juncture with the foot end beneath, it was secured by drilling a vertical hole, inserting a stainless steel dowel, and gluing it in place.