Berenike's head before conservation, after initial cleaning
- Description:
- Berenike's head before conservation, after initial cleaning
- Photographer:
- Image captured by Project Staff
- Date Created:
- 2002
- Collection:
- Greco-Roman Museum Mosaic Conservation
- Series:
- Pre-conservation
- Subseries:
- Berenike Mosaic
- Location:
- Alexandria, Egypt, Al Iskandarīyah, Tell Timai, Thmuis, and Al Mansurah
- Time Period:
- Hellenistic Period and Ptolemaic Period
- Topic:
- Art, Greco-Roman, Queens, Royalty, Military uniforms in art, Damage--Antiquities, Maritime, Mosaics, Tesserae, Stonework, Portraits, and Ptolemy III Euergetes I Berenice, Queen, consort of Ptolemy III, King of Egypt
- Genre:
- color photographs
- Conservation Note:
- Only the central panel of a larger pavement was preserved. It comprises a geometric frame and a figurative emblema. The scales of the geometric frame appear to have been repaired at some point with different cubes. Fragments are missing from the background in the figurative panel. Other parts were broken and joined together. Small fragments near the prow, the left side of the emblema were restored with larger cubes of a slightly different color. Part of the hair and of the prow is missing, as are parts of the stylis and of the ribbon. A few rows of cubes from the outer border of the pavement have survived in place (State of Preservation, Final Remarks Report).
- Copyright Status:
- copyrighted
- Creative Commons License:
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- Local ID:
- arce_ca_mmc_images_0188.tif
- 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).