The Reconstruction of Ancient Egyptian Buildings and Site's Remains and Ruins The Justifications and an Overview of Some Practices | ||||
| مجلة الإتحاد العام للآثاريين العرب | ||||
| Article 13, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2012, Page 13-66 PDF (12.81 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jguaa.2012.2926 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Abdou El-Derby* | ||||
| faculty of archaeology ,south valley university ,Qena(Egypt) | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The reconstruction of archaeological remains and ruins of buildings and sites is a dilemma and a controversial theme among specialists, but the predominant and widespread the conservative view the reversible minimum interventions which is against reconstruction. this paper exhibits this current approach and confounds it with the warrants or justifications for buildings and sites reconstruction 's remains and ruins particularly ancient Egyptian ones which have some particular conditions , and with exhibition to the general criteria for reconstruction, holding the pass with an overview of some proverbial reconstruction practices of ancient Egyptian buildings (the temple of Hatshepsut at el-Deir elBahari, the white chapel of Senusret I , the Egyptian Alabaster Chapel of Amenhotep I and the Red Chapel of Hatshepsut at Karnak. | ||||
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- similar in some ways to the urge to improve or correct someone else’s text , both involve a strong desire to see an object that is complete and integral to one’s own satisfaction, rather than tolerate a creative work that has been diminished in its intelligibility . see: Stanley-Price, N2009 , op.cit.,p.32. - English Heritage Policy Statement on Restoration, Reconstruction and Speculative Recreation of Archaeological Sites Including Ruins , February 2001 , pp.17- 29. - also compare the monumental scale of the reconstructed Stoa of Attalus in the Athens Agora, already referred to the Gymnasium of the Baths at Sardis and Pyramid B, Tula, Mexico, as restored by Jorge Acosta, 1941 , see Stanley-Price, N. ,op.cit. , 2009 , p.40
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