The BA thesis is concerned with the technical examination and restoration history of an 18th Dynasty sandstone naos, a shrine, from Elkab in southern Upper Egypt, bearing the cartouches of the pharaoh Tuthmosis III (1479 – 1425 BCE) which belongs to the Egyptian collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. It was received in 1902 from the architect and excavator Somers Clarke FSA (1841 – 1926) and was subject to a restoration campaign in the early years of the 20th century and in 1969. The thesis discusses briefly also possible future treatment of the naos.
Remarkable is the fact that the naos is made of two different sandstones although they are usually monolithic, it bears traces of polychromy and gives insight into stone restoration in the early 20th century and the changing attitude towards the display of fragmented objects during the last century.
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The BA thesis is concerned with the technical examination and restoration history of an 18th Dynasty sandstone naos, a shrine, from Elkab in southern Upper Egypt, bearing the cartouches of the pharaoh Tuthmosis III (1479 – 1425 BCE) which belongs to the Egyptian collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. It was received in 1902 from the architect and excavator Somers Clarke FSA (1841 – 1926) and was subject to a restoration campaign in the early years of the 20th century and...
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