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Assembly of floor of sarcophagus box on limestone base, looking down

Description:
Assembly of floor of sarcophagus box on limestone base, looking down
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, Afterlife, Damage--Antiquities, Tombs--Egypt, Funerary monuments, Sarcophagi, Fragmentation--Antiquities, and Ramesses VI, King of Egypt
Genre:
black-and-white 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). To learn more about the assembly of the sarcophagus box floor fragments, see section V.2 in the Final Report.
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_0071.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).