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Egypt
DOI article:Pawlicki, Franciszek: Deir el-Bahari: the temple of queen Hatshepsut, 1997/1998
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_DEIR EL-BAHARI
EGYPT
DEIR EL-BAHARI
THE TEMPLE OF QUEEN HATSHEPSUT,
1997/1998
Franciszek Pawlicki
The tragic events which had place in the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari in
November 1997 delayed by a few weeks the start of the sixth consecutive season of conserva-
tion and restoration works by a joint Polish-Egyptian expedition.Changes on the staff21
precluded the previously planned engineering work on the protection of the Northern Chapel
of Amun and the Upper Chapel of Anubis. Instead, taking advantage of the dramatic
decline in tourist visits to the site, a full conservation of the southern wall of the Portico of
Punt was carried out. All the other planned works in the program approved by the Egyptian
Supreme Council of Antiquities were executed in full.
The work of the expedition was financed as usual by the Polish Center of Archaeology of Warsaw University and the
Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt. The season lasted from December 1, 1997, to April 3, 1998- Words of special
thanks are due to SCA Secretary General, Prof. Dr. Gaballa Ali Gaballa; SCA Pharaonic Sector Director General, Dr.
Mohammed Soghayer; SCA Antiquities Department in Luxor Director, Dr. Mohammed Nasr; SCA Antiquities Inspector
in Gurna, Dr. Sabri Abdel Aziz; and Restoration Department director, Eng. Mohamed Ali Salam. Without their help the
execution of the expedition's extended program would have been practically impossible.
2) The expedition staff included: Dr. Franciszek Pawlicki, expedition director; Messrs. Andrzej Kwasnica and Piotr
D^browski, architects-engineers; Prof. Dr. Jan Krzysztof Winnicki, egyptologist; Messrs. Rajmund Gazda, Wojciech
Myjak, Andrzej Sosnierz, Ms Agata Wiaderny, Dr. Maria Lulkiewicz-Podkowinska, conservators; Messrs. Pawet D^brows-
ki, Maciej Jawornicki, draftsmen-documentalists; Mr. Waldemar Jerke, photographer. Throughout the season the expedi-
tion cooperated with SCA Antiquities Inspector, Mr. Yasser Youssif Ahmed, and with Mohammed Shawki Bakri, engineer,
supplier of all the reconstruction materials needed by the team. Special recognition is also due Mr. Ragab Ahmed Yassin
who managed the work of the team of Egyptian monument renovators.
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EGYPT
DEIR EL-BAHARI
THE TEMPLE OF QUEEN HATSHEPSUT,
1997/1998
Franciszek Pawlicki
The tragic events which had place in the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari in
November 1997 delayed by a few weeks the start of the sixth consecutive season of conserva-
tion and restoration works by a joint Polish-Egyptian expedition.Changes on the staff21
precluded the previously planned engineering work on the protection of the Northern Chapel
of Amun and the Upper Chapel of Anubis. Instead, taking advantage of the dramatic
decline in tourist visits to the site, a full conservation of the southern wall of the Portico of
Punt was carried out. All the other planned works in the program approved by the Egyptian
Supreme Council of Antiquities were executed in full.
The work of the expedition was financed as usual by the Polish Center of Archaeology of Warsaw University and the
Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt. The season lasted from December 1, 1997, to April 3, 1998- Words of special
thanks are due to SCA Secretary General, Prof. Dr. Gaballa Ali Gaballa; SCA Pharaonic Sector Director General, Dr.
Mohammed Soghayer; SCA Antiquities Department in Luxor Director, Dr. Mohammed Nasr; SCA Antiquities Inspector
in Gurna, Dr. Sabri Abdel Aziz; and Restoration Department director, Eng. Mohamed Ali Salam. Without their help the
execution of the expedition's extended program would have been practically impossible.
2) The expedition staff included: Dr. Franciszek Pawlicki, expedition director; Messrs. Andrzej Kwasnica and Piotr
D^browski, architects-engineers; Prof. Dr. Jan Krzysztof Winnicki, egyptologist; Messrs. Rajmund Gazda, Wojciech
Myjak, Andrzej Sosnierz, Ms Agata Wiaderny, Dr. Maria Lulkiewicz-Podkowinska, conservators; Messrs. Pawet D^brows-
ki, Maciej Jawornicki, draftsmen-documentalists; Mr. Waldemar Jerke, photographer. Throughout the season the expedi-
tion cooperated with SCA Antiquities Inspector, Mr. Yasser Youssif Ahmed, and with Mohammed Shawki Bakri, engineer,
supplier of all the reconstruction materials needed by the team. Special recognition is also due Mr. Ragab Ahmed Yassin
who managed the work of the team of Egyptian monument renovators.
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