Close up of tracing of Berenike mosaic on nylon sheet 03
- Description:
- Close up of tracing of Berenike mosaic on nylon sheet 03
- Photographer:
- Image captured by Project Staff
- Date Created:
- May 23, 2003
- Collection:
- Greco-Roman Museum Mosaic Conservation
- Series:
- Conservation work in progress
- Subseries:
- Berenike Mosaic
- Time Period:
- Hellenistic Period and Ptolemaic Period
- Topic:
- Art, Greco-Roman, Queens, Royalty, Mosaics, Portraits, and Ptolemy III Euergetes I Berenice, Queen, consort of Ptolemy III, King of Egypt
- Genre:
- tracings (drawings), color photographs, and documentation (activity)
- Copyright Status:
- copyrighted
- Creative Commons License:
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- Local ID:
- arce_ca_mmc_images_0353.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).