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The Luxor Temple Roman Frescos Project
Michael Jones
(ARCE, Cairo)
The American Research Center in Egypt is continuing its program of conservation and documentation of post-Pharaonic wall paintings in Egypt with a project on the Roman paintings in the Luxor Temple. Archaeologists and art historians have recognized the importance of these paintings in the surviving remains of the Roman legionary fortress built in the late 3rd century AD within and around the temple.
John Gardner Wilkinsons free-hand watercolour drawings are the only known copies of these paintings showing what survived when they were first uncovered in the 19th century. Since his time, no further attempts were made to copy or photograph the paintings. Substantial losses have considerably reduced the preserved sections, due mainly to attempts at prizing off the Roman plaster to access the 18th Dynasty reliefs beneath. In recent years they have been further jeopardized by increased atmospheric humidity and pollution.
This paper will describe the background of the project, present the results of the first two seasons, Fall 2005 and Fall 2006, and discuss the challenge of how to preserve the paintings in an increasingly hostile environment after the cleaning and conservation work is finished.
The project is carried out in close collaboration with Chicago House and we are very grateful to Dr. Ray Johnson and his team for their highly professional and collegial support. |
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Name: The 58th Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt
URL: http://www.arce.org
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MLA Citation:
| Jones, Michael. "The Luxor Temple Roman Frescos Project" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The 58th Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, Wyndham Toledo Hotel, Toledo, Ohio, Apr 20, 2007 <Not Available>. 2013-05-08 <http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p185393_index.html> |
APA Citation:
| Jones, M. , 2007-04-20 "The Luxor Temple Roman Frescos Project" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The 58th Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, Wyndham Toledo Hotel, Toledo, Ohio <Not Available>. 2013-05-08 from http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p185393_index.html |
Publication Type: Abstract Proposal
Abstract: The Luxor Temple Roman Frescos Project
Michael Jones
(ARCE, Cairo)
The American Research Center in Egypt is continuing its program of conservation and documentation of post-Pharaonic wall paintings in Egypt with a project on the Roman paintings in the Luxor Temple. Archaeologists and art historians have recognized the importance of these paintings in the surviving remains of the Roman legionary fortress built in the late 3rd century AD within and around the temple.
John Gardner Wilkinsons free-hand watercolour drawings are the only known copies of these paintings showing what survived when they were first uncovered in the 19th century. Since his time, no further attempts were made to copy or photograph the paintings. Substantial losses have considerably reduced the preserved sections, due mainly to attempts at prizing off the Roman plaster to access the 18th Dynasty reliefs beneath. In recent years they have been further jeopardized by increased atmospheric humidity and pollution.
This paper will describe the background of the project, present the results of the first two seasons, Fall 2005 and Fall 2006, and discuss the challenge of how to preserve the paintings in an increasingly hostile environment after the cleaning and conservation work is finished.
The project is carried out in close collaboration with Chicago House and we are very grateful to Dr. Ray Johnson and his team for their highly professional and collegial support. |
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