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The nearly 5,000 year old Shunet el-Zebib mud-brick cultic monument, the only surviving example, was built at Abydos as a setting for King Khasekhemwy?EUR??,,????'???s mortuary cult rituals at the end of Egypt?EUR??,,????'???s Second Dynasty, circa 2750 BC. While the survival of the ancient mud brick is incredible, time had taken its toll and it was in danger of collapsing. Beginning in 2001, a conservation and stabilization program was developed, sponsored by New York University?EUR??,,????'???s Institute of Fine Arts. The plan does not involve modern construction techniques, but using the same mud brick of the ancients. The project director for the program is Dr. David O?EUR??,,????'???Connor, the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. The monument, which occupies more than two acres, is not being restored to its original appearance, but preserved in a way that reflects its antiquity. The weakest points are being repaired, but many of the visual scars inflicted by time will remain. The conservation of the monument is about half completed. Shunet el-Zebib comprises two concentric enclosure walls, the inner still mostly standing to near its original height of 35 feet and defining a large open ritual space embellished by a substantial mud brick chapel.
The nearly 5,000 year old Shunet el-Zebib mud-brick cultic monument, the only surviving example, was built at Abydos as a setting for King Khasekhemwy?EUR??,,????'???s mortuary cult rituals at the end of Egypt?EUR??,,????'???s Second Dynasty, circa 2750 BC.
While the survival of the ancient mud brick is incredible, time had taken its toll and it was in danger of collapsing. Beginning in 2001, a conservation and stabilization program was developed, sponsored by New York University?EUR??,,????'???s Institute of Fine Arts.
The plan does not involve modern construction techniques, but using the same mud brick of the ancients. The project director for the program is Dr. David O?EUR??,,????'???Connor, the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. The monument, which occupies more than two acres, is not being restored to its original appearance, but preserved in a way that reflects its antiquity. The weakest points are being repaired, but many of the visual scars inflicted by time will remain. The conservation of the monument is about half completed.
Shunet el-Zebib comprises two concentric enclosure walls, the inner still mostly standing to near its original height of 35 feet and defining a large open ritual space embellished by a substantial mud brick chapel.
Francisco Uviña, University of New Mexico
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