Documentation, Conservation and Publication of the Saite-Persian Sarcophagus-tombs in Saqqara

萨卡拉赛特波斯石棺墓的文献、保护和出版

• 批准号: 288139336
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Christian Leitz, since 4/2022
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Vor- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie und Provinzialrömische Archäologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/288139336?language=en
• 关键词: Documentation; Conservation; Publication; Saite; Persian

In Phase 1 of the Sarcophagus-tombs Project, the applicant called for a second round of epigraphic and re-excavation missions to sites that were excavated during the first decades of the 20th Century in order to employ state of the art documentation techniques. The importance of accurately recording monuments and producing exact facsimiles of their decorations and texts, in part, stem from the realization that ‘no amount of conservation or restoration can halt [a monument’s] decay’ and that ‘any monument will either disintegrate and become a ruin or be recycled’. Working within this framework, the applicant applied digital documentation techniques (3D Laser scanning and Photogrammetry) to record and map the Sarcophagus-tomb Complexes of PA-dj-nj-Ast, PsmTk, and Jmn-tAy.f-nxt of Dynasty 26, located to the south and east of the pyramid of King Unas in Saqqara. The project has not only produced facsimiles of the texts of the three burial chambers, but also provided technique improvement in digital epigraphy, particularly with regards to drawing inscriptions on curved surfaces. This was achieved through a combination of laser scanning and photogrammetry, in addition to data processing on AutoCade. It was projected in the first application that a second round of documentation and excavation of the site of the Sarcophagus-tombs would yield new archaeological materials, since the area has witnessed no further explorations after Maspero’s campaigns in 1899-1905. Indeed, the project salvaged archaeological evidence for the superstructure of the tombs’ main shafts, and a complex of mummification structures, including an Embalmer’s Cachette, a Mummification Workshop, and a Communal Burial Shaft (hypogeum), exactly 1.00 m to the south of the area where Maspero stopped his excavation. The applicant proposes a second phase of the Sarcophagus-tombs Project to document, conserve and publish the tombs of PA-dj-njt and 1kA-m-sA.f and the Mummification Complex.

在石棺墓葬项目的第一阶段，申请人要求对20世纪头几十年发掘的遗址进行第二轮铭文和重新发掘任务，以采用最先进的文献技术。准确记录古迹并精确复制其装饰和文字的重要性，部分源于人们认识到“再多的保护或修复也无法阻止[纪念碑]的腐烂”，“任何纪念碑要么解体，要么成为废墟，要么被回收利用”。在此框架下，申请人应用数字文档技术（3D激光扫描和摄影测量）来记录和绘制PA-dj-nj-Ast， PsmTk和Jmn-tAy的石棺墓群。位于萨卡拉乌纳斯国王金字塔的南面和东面的第26王朝的下一代。该项目不仅制作了三个墓室文本的复制品，而且还提供了数字铭文技术的改进，特别是在曲面上绘制铭文方面。这是通过激光扫描和摄影测量的结合，以及在AutoCade上的数据处理来实现的。在第一次申请中，预计第二轮对石棺遗址的记录和挖掘将产生新的考古材料，因为在1899-1905年马斯佩罗的运动之后，该地区没有进一步的探索。事实上，该项目打捞了陵墓主竖井上层建筑的考古证据，以及木乃伊化结构的综合体，包括一个防腐室，一个木乃伊化车间和一个公共埋葬竖井（地下墓穴），正好在马斯佩罗停止挖掘的地区以南100米。申请人建议进行第二期石棺墓葬计划，以记录、保存及出版PA-dj-njt及1kA-m-sA的墓葬。f和木乃伊建筑群。