Face replica mounted with wooden supports on wood support for sarcophagus lid fragments
- Description:
- Face replica mounted with wooden supports on wood support for sarcophagus lid fragments
- Date Created:
- 2002-06
- 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, Sarcophagi, Fragmentation--Antiquities, and Ramesses VI, King of Egypt
- Genre:
- color photographs
- Conservation Note:
- The face of the lid, taken from the tomb in the 19th century and currently in the British Museum, was replicated and incorporated into the sarcophagus reassembly, thereby ensuring its preservation within its original context.During April 2002, Micheal Neilson of the conservation department of the British Museum began the production of a replica of the face from the sarcophagus lid now in the British Museum's Egyptian Antiquities collection (EA 140). The production of this replica in fiberglass resin was completed by the end of May, 2002.
- 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_0466.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).