Assembling head and foot ends of sarcophagus box
- Description:
- Assembling head and foot ends of sarcophagus box
- Physical Description:
- 30 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
- Cultural Object:
- Sarcophagi, Tombs--Egypt, Sarcophagi, Tombs--Egypt, Sarcophagi, and Tombs--Egypt
- Fieldwork activities:
- replicas, dowels, conservation (process), work site, transporting (antiquities), documentation (activity), adhesives, personnel, drilling (process), winches, assembling (additive and joining process), replicas, dowels, conservation (process), work site, transporting (antiquities), documentation (activity), adhesives, personnel, drilling (process), winches, assembling (additive and joining process), replicas, dowels, conservation (process), work site, transporting (antiquities), documentation (activity), adhesives, personnel, drilling (process), winches, and assembling (additive and joining 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:
- 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. For more information on the installation of winch scaffolding, see section IV.5 in the Final Report. and The assembly of the floor of the sarcophagus box began with joining together large fragments that make up the head and foot ends (three pieces at each end). To learn more about the assembly of the sarcophagus box floor fragments, see section V.2 in the Final Report.