Sarcophagus box, northeast corner, with drill holes for inserting fiberglass support rods
- Description:
- Sarcophagus box, northeast corner, with drill holes for inserting fiberglass support rods
- Date Created:
- July, 2002
- 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:
- Fiberglass rods were used to add vertical support. As the fragment at the left foot corner that joined the side group did not have a very secure surface of juncture with the foot end beneath, it was secured by drilling a vertical hole, inserting a stainless steel dowel, and gluing it in place. For more information on the assembly of the sarcophagus box, see section V in the Final Report.
- 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_0115.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).