Suspended group of glued fragments from head end of floor of sarcophagus box, looking west
- Description:
- Suspended group of glued fragments from head end of floor of sarcophagus box, looking west
- Date Created:
- July, 2001
- Collection:
- Ramesses VI (KV9) Sarcophagus Conservation
- Series:
- Conservation work in progress
- Location:
- Luxor, Egypt, Al Uqşur, and Kings, Valley of the
- Time Period:
- New Kingdom and 20th Dynasty
- Topic:
- Art, Ancient--Egypt, Damage--Antiquities, Sarcophagi, Fragmentation--Antiquities, Tombs--Egypt, Funerary monuments, and Ramesses VI, King of Egypt
- Genre:
- color photographs
- Conservation Note:
- 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). This was done by drilling a hole 12 mm. In diameter through the thickness of each of the three fragments for the insertion of stainless steel dowels 10 mm in diameter. The thickness of the fragments averaged 15 cm. Two large fragments forming the curved head end of the floor, together with another interior fragment, were drilled horizontally for 10 mm. dowels and joined together. The stainless steel dowels were held in place by being coated with an epoxy adhesive (Araldite). To learn more about the assembly of the sarcophagus box floor fragments, see section V.2 in the Final Report.
- Copyright Status:
- copyrighted
- 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)."
- Local ID:
- arce_ca_srvi_images_0190.tif
- 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).