Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (6.1994(1995))

DEBR EL-BAHARI
HATSHEPSUT TEMPLE
CONSERVATION PROJECT 1993/1994
by Franciszek Pawiicki
The second season of the Polish-Egyptian Conservation
Mission to the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari lasted from
December 3, 1993, to April 2, 19942 Jointly funded by the
Egyptian Antiquities Organization and the Polish Center of
Archaeology of Warsaw University, the mission continued to
implement the general program adopted by the E.A.O. Permanent
Committee intended to complete conservation activities prerequisite
to opening the temple's Third Terrace to the public^ Conservation
also proceeded in the chapels and porticos of the other two
terraces, protecting wherever necessary the disintegrating ancient
substance.
The work comprised: conservation of limestone blocks in
the lapidaries; conservation of the stone in the walls of the Upper
Court and the Royal Chapels; conservation of the polychromy and
plaster of the Anubis Shrine; reconstruction of the western section
of the southern wall of the Upper Terrace; reconstruction of an
Osiriac statue in the facade of the Upper Portico; technical
protection of the northern wall of the Anubis Shrine.
Intensive egyptological and architectural studies paralleled the
actual conservation activities with a view to completing the final

' The Mission included: Dr. Franciszek Pawlicki (director), Prof.Dr. Jan
Winnicki, Dr. Maciej Witkowski, Dr. Zbigniew Szafrański - egyptologists;
Prof.Dr. Andrzej Drągowski - geologist; Dr. Grzegorz Bogobowicz -
constructor; Mr. Andrzej Kwaśnica - architect; Mr. Krzysztof Zlotkowski -
electrician; Mr. Rajmund Gazda, Mrs. Anna Bogusz - conserwators;
Mr. Waldemar Jerke - photographer.
* The program of work was adopted based on a report of the temple's
condition prepared in the 1992-1993 season.

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