Deir el-Bahari: Temple of Hatshepsut (Egypt)
Dates of work: 1 November 2009–15 April 2010
Team:
Director: Dr. Zbigniew E. Szafrański (Research Center in Cairo, PCMA UW)
SCA representatives: Hany Ibrahim, Abdel-Ghani Abdel-Rahman Mohamed, Ezz el-Din Kamal el-Nouby, Abdel Rahman, Mohamed Hatem Ali Soliman, Mustafa Mohamed Saleh, Mohamed el-Azab
Egyptologists: Dr. Mirosław Barwik (Deputy Director, Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw), Olga Białostocka, Anastazja Stupko, Jadwiga Iwaszczuk (all three PhD candidates, Institute of Ancient and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences), Dr. Andrzej Ćwiek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), Cynthia May-Sheikholeslami (American University in Cairo), Dr. Aliaksei Shukanau (IFAO scholarship holder)
Architects: Aleksandra Brzozowska, Dr. Teresa Kaczor, Prof. Jacek Kościuk (all three Wrocław Technical University), Andrzej Kwaśnica (freelance)
Archaeologists: Paul M. Barford, Kamila Braulińska, Łukasz Jarmużek, Katarzyna Kapiec, Anna Maria Kotarba Morley, Sarah Fortuna (all six independent), Robert Ryndziewicz (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin), Renata Kucharczyk, Graeco-Roman glass specialist (PCMA UW)
Conservators: Rajmund Gazda, Maria Lulkiewicz-Podkowińska, Andrzej Sośnierz, Magdalena Szewczyk, Krystyna Wadzyńska, Wanda Zawistowska-Śleboda (all six freelances), Wojciech Myjak (Ministry of Culture, Warsaw)
Engineers: Mariusz Dybich (PCMA UW), Mieczysław Michiewicz (freelance)
Geodesists: Bartłomiej Ćmielowski, Waldemar Kubisz (both Leica Geosystem, Warsaw
Geologist: Dr Michał Wasilewski (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Anthropologists: Beata Balukiewicz, Urszula Iwaszczuk (both Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw)
Photographers: Maciej Jawornicki, Aleksandra Kamińska, Wojciech Wojciechowski (all three freelance)
Documentalist: Marek Puszkarski (PCMA UW), Mariusz Caban (Wrocław Technical University)
Student-trainees: Łukasz Kumkowski, Agata Smilgin (both Adam Mickiewicz Unversity, Poznań), Ewelina Owsiana, Paweł Srokowski (both Wrocław Technical University)
The Polish–Egyptian conservation effort, coupled with documentation and digging, was continued in the Royal Mortuary Cult Complex on the Upper Terrace of the Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari for two successive seasons, in 2008/2009 and 2009/2010. The lighting system in the Northern Chamber of Amun-Re was set up finally, completing the conservation of this cult place. Documentation work in the Main Sanctuary of Amun-Re was supported additionally with 3D scanning technology. Osirides, sandstone sphinxes, and related sculptures of Hatshepsut were also studied. On the Middle Terrace, the Hathor Shrine vestibule was subjected to the first stages of static consolidation and conservation.
[Text: PAM]