Gap in sarcophagus box infilled with mortar
- Description:
- Gap in sarcophagus box infilled with mortar
- Date Created:
- 2003-05
- 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:
- Damage--Antiquities, Sarcophagi, Fragmentation--Antiquities, and Ramesses VI, King of Egypt
- Genre:
- color photographs
- Conservation Note:
- Dany Roy and Lotfi Khaled suggested that some of the smaller gaps between fragments in the box assembly should be filled with lime mortar, appropriately tinted, in order to increase the stability of the assembly as well as for aesthetic reasons.In order to insure better structural integrity for the box assembly several gaps were filled in with lime and sand mortar.
- 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_0444.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).