East wall of imperial cult chamber before conservation
Item Overview
- Title
- East wall of imperial cult chamber before conservation
- Photographer
- Kobylecky, Yarko
- Date Created
- November - December 2005
- Date
- 2005-11/2005-12
- Collection
- Luxor Roman Wall Paintings
- Series
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ICC East Wall
Existing conditions before conservation - Program
- International Digital Ephemera Project
Notes
- Contents note
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The east wall compositions juxtapose with the south wall, conveying a naturalistic and dynamic character. The top register’s content cannot be determined due to its poor state. However, illustrations of a blue shield decorated with feathery flower buds, two red ocher cylinderical objects, and yellow masonry are still visible. The second register illustrates soldiers in a ceremonial procession, and the bottom register is marked by the characteristic imitation opus sectile found on other walls. The plaster has suffered significant losses since its documentation by Wilkinson in the 19th century. The twisting head of a horse just above the door was recently revealed during ARCE’s conservation efforts, McFadden speculates that the leader of the procession is mounted on the horse due to the resemblance of the position of the horse’s head with other depictions of adventus processions (McFadden 2015, 108-110).
Note: The images are ordered to reflect the sequence of the registers, from the topmost register; left to right, to the bottom registers; left to right. - Related Records
- Photo-documentation of Roman Paintings at Luxor Temple, the Roman Praesidium. Key Maps, November 2005
- Statement of Responsibility
- Amenhotep III was responsible for constructing the greater part of the present Luxor Temple around 1400 BCE. Under Diocletian, Emperor of Rome, 245-313, the first Tetrarchy transformed the temple site, including one of the temple’s offering halls into what is now known as the imperial cult chamber. In the early 2000s, ARCE conducted several site visits to Luxor to extensively document the grounds and undertake conversation efforts for the Roman frescoes present in that chamber.
- References
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McFadden, Susanna. 2015. “The Luxor Temple Paintings in Context: Roman Visual Culture in Late Antiquity.” In Art of Empire: The Roman Frescoes and Imperial Cult Chamber in Luxor Temple, edited by Michael Jones and Susanna McFadden, 105-133, New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Nelson number: 172. "Reliefs and Inscriptions at Luxor Temple, Vol. 2," The Epigraphic Survey, The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/oip/reliefs-and-inscriptions-luxor-temple-volume-2-facade-portals-upper
Physical Description
- Extent
- 17 black and white photographs
- Medium
- Black and white 35mm prints
Keywords
- Genre
- black-and-white photographs
- Subject Geographic
- Luxor, Egypt
- Subject Temporal
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Tetrarchy
Late Roman Period
New Kingdom - Longitude
- 25.698803517602403
- Latitude
- 32.63847958947986
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Borders, Ornamental (Decorative arts)
Inscriptions
Painting
Fresco painting
Mural painting and decoration
Relief (Art)
Decoration and ornament
Temples
Art, Ancient--Egypt
Layered histories--material
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Art, Greco-Roman
Altered in antiquity
Find This Item
- Repository
- American Research Center in Egypt
- Local Identifier
- 19713-19729
- ARK
- ark:/21198/z1dn98pv
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Local 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)."
- Rights Holder
- http://www.arce.org/main/about/contact
- Funding Note
- The conservation of Roman frescoes in the imperial cult chamber of the Luxor temple was made possible with funding by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Grant No. 263-G-00-93-00089-00 and administered by the Egyptian Antiquities Project (EAP) of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE).
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .