This meeting will be on Zoom and in person in Glasgow.
Nearly 5 years ago, in early 2018, Monument Men were invited by Manchester Museum to assess a large collection of archaeological plaster casts in the Egypt and Sudan stores with a view to a photogrammetry project. Following conservation work, they were scanned and researched over a couple of weeks by a team of volunteers, with a surprising result – some of these casts were identified as the Ptolemaic sanctuary chapel of Imhotep and Amenhotep, Son of Hapu at the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, originally commissioned for reproduction from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
While the collection is still in a very fragile state, they do provide fascinating insights into the site during the period they were taken, with some of the casts offering the potential for further scientific analysis of possible transferred pigments from the original wall decoration. This presentation will discuss the evolution of the project, what has been achieved already, and our future plans for the collection.
Lee Robert McStein is the technical director of Monument Men, a non-profit cultural heritage organisation based in the North West of England, an academy trainer for the Italian photogrammetry developers 3DFlow (University of Verona) and consultant photogrammetrist to the Ancient Egyptian Animal Bio Bank (University of Manchester).
Entry: £5 members, £7 non-members