Imperial cult chamber entrance from Hypostyle Hall
- Description:
- Imperial cult chamber entrance from Hypostyle Hall
- Physical Description:
- 8 color photographs and Color 35mm slides
- Author:
- Vescovo, Arnaldo and Vescovo, Alessandro
- Date Created:
- February-March 2009
- Collection:
- Luxor Roman Wall Paintings
- Series:
- Post-conservation | Hypostyle Hall
- Location:
- Luxor, Egypt
- Time Period:
- Tetrarchy, Late Roman Period, and New Kingdom
- Topic:
- Amenhoptep III, King of Egypt, Constantius I, Emperor of Rome, -306, Imperialism in art, Altered in antiquity, Emperors, Damnatio memoriae, Halo (Art), Art, Ancient--Egypt, Layered histories--material, and Art, Greco-Roman
- Cultural Object:
- Mural painting and decoration, Columns, Niche (Architecture), Fresco painting, Relief (Art), Apses (Architecture), Temples, Inscriptions, Mural painting and decoration, Columns, Niche (Architecture), Fresco painting, Relief (Art), Apses (Architecture), Temples, Inscriptions, Mural painting and decoration, Columns, Niche (Architecture), Fresco painting, Relief (Art), Apses (Architecture), Temples, Inscriptions, Mural painting and decoration, Columns, Niche (Architecture), Fresco painting, Relief (Art), Apses (Architecture), Temples, Inscriptions, Mural painting and decoration, Columns, Niche (Architecture), Fresco painting, Relief (Art), Apses (Architecture), Temples, Inscriptions, Mural painting and decoration, Columns, Niche (Architecture), Fresco painting, Relief (Art), Apses (Architecture), Temples, and Inscriptions
- Genre:
- color photographs and color slides
- References:
- McFadden, Susanna. 2015. “The Luxor Temple Paintings in Context: Roman Visual Culture in Late Antiquity.” and “Picturing Power in Late Roman Egypt: The Imperial Cult, Imperial Portraits, and a Visual Panegyric for Diocletian” In Art of Empire: The Roman Frescoes and Imperial Cult Chamber in Luxor Temple, edited by Michael Jones and Susanna McFadden, 127-135, New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
- 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:
- Amenhotep III was responsible for constructing the greater part of the present Luxor Temple around 1400 BCE. Under Diocletian, Emperor of Rome, 245-313, the first Tetrarchy transformed the temple site, including one of the temple’s offering halls into what is now known as the imperial cult chamber. In the early 2000s, ARCE conducted several site visits to Luxor to extensively document the grounds and undertake conversation efforts for the Roman frescoes present in that chamber.
- Funding Agency:
- The conservation of Roman frescoes in the imperial cult chamber of the Luxor temple 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).