Świątynia królowej Hatszepsut w Deir el Bahari : odkrycie, badania oraz rekonstrukcja półki skalnej nad górnym tarasem

• Authors: Wysocki Zygmunt

Title variants

EN

THE TEMPLE OF QUEEN HATŚHEPSUT IN DEIR EL BAHARI. THE UNCOVERY, STUDIES AND RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ROCK LEDGE OVER THE UPPER TERRACE

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

A s head of the Egyptian-Polish Conservation Mission o rg a nized on behalf of Poland by the State Enterprise — The Ateliers for Conservation of Cultural Property — the author of the present report carried out research and conservation work on the site of the upper courtyard of the temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el Bahari in Egypt. During the work an unknown element of the temple, i.e. a ledge over the upper terrace, was revealed. Basing on the studies made, the following conclusions were drawn with regard to this newly-uncovered element and the form of a protective wall, some parts of which have been preserved in the upper terrace: 1) The ledge was to protect the temple again st threats posed by its rooky environment. Apart from that, it could be used for watching and s ignalling purposes. 2) It extended a long the whole width of the upmost terrace and its central part over a sanctuary was made artificially by filling with stones a rocky breach hewn in the massif in order to house in it the first sanctuary room. 3) A possible access to the ledge could be placed only on the south side of the upper terrace. 4) The south closing of the ledge and of the protective wall got destroyed during a ch an ge in the configuration of the rock encircling the structure from the south when making a platform for the construction of the Temple of Totmes III. 5) The protective wall facing the front edge of the ledge was to protect the body of the rock again st erosion, to cover the artificial filling of a centrol breach and an built-in construction relieving the vaulting of the sanctuary, to create the background for temple’s architecture and to enclose it with the wall from the west. 6. The protective wall reached the height of the ledge and there were neither niches nor breaks in it. Nor had it any moulding but was finished with the crowning in all encircling walls of the temple. There has never been any pyramid in the central part of the ledge. When considering possibilities to protect the tempie against threatening rocks, various proposals were taken into account. The revealing of the remnants of the ledge ga ve rise to the idea of its reconstruction, which, at least p a r tially, should solve the problem of protecting the temple. The reconstruction of the ledge involved the necessity to reconstruct a protective wall. The execution of these plans, including research work, studies and documentation, took nearly four and a half years. The justness of the decision to restore the function of the ledge may be proved by the fact that a few barrows of rocky splinters chipped off the massif are collected each season as a result of rocks’ decay. O n the other hand, the reconstructed covering wall provides a background for temple’s architecture.

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1986
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 239-254

Dates

published

1986

Contributors

author

Wysocki Zygmunt

• arch., PP PKZ — Oddział w Gdańsku

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Identifiers

ISSN

0029-8247