West wall of imperial cult chamber before conservation
- Description:
- West wall of imperial cult chamber before conservation
- Physical Description:
- 3 color transparencies and 4 x 5 color transparencies
- Author:
- Kobylecky, Yarko
- Date Created:
- March 2006
- Collection:
- Luxor Roman Wall Paintings
- Series:
- ICC West Wall
- Location:
- Luxor, Egypt
- Time Period:
- Tetrarchy, Late Roman Period, and New Kingdom
- Topic:
- Altered in antiquity, Art, Ancient--Egypt, and Layered histories--material
- Cultural Object:
- Inscriptions, Temples, Relief (Art), Fresco painting, Inscriptions, Temples, Relief (Art), and Fresco painting
- Genre:
- color transparencies and color photographs
- References:
- Nelson number: 172. "Reliefs and Inscriptions at Luxor Temple, Vol. 2," The Epigraphic Survey, The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/oip/reliefs-and-inscriptions-luxor-temple-volume-2-facade-portals-upper
- 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).