Close up of mosaic with remnants of past conservation efforts
- Description:
- Close up of mosaic with remnants of past conservation efforts
- Photographer:
- Image captured by Project Staff
- Date Created:
- March 19, 2003
- Collection:
- Greco-Roman Museum Mosaic Conservation
- Series:
- Conservation work in progress
- Subseries:
- Stag Hunt Mosaic
- Location:
- Alexandria, Egypt and Al Iskandarīyah
- Time Period:
- Hellenistic Period and Ptolemaic Period
- Topic:
- Art, Greco-Roman, Mosaics, Tesserae, and Stonework
- Genre:
- color photographs and old conservation
- Conservation Note:
- After the remounting, prior restorations became more evident on both the Stag Hunt and the Alphios mosaics. At some point after the Stag Hunt's removal from its original context in the early twentieth century, lacunae and voids had been partially fille with stone tesserae fixed in a black cement mortar, which was visible in the interstices between the tesserae. In some instances, the tesserae was entirely engulfed by the mortar (Presentation Report)
- Copyright Status:
- copyrighted
- Creative Commons License:
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- Local ID:
- arce_ca_mmc_images_0077.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).