The Ceremonial Canopied Chariot of Tutankhamun (JE61990 and JE60705)

A Tentative Virtual Reconstruction

  • Nozomu Kawai (Author)

    NOZOMU KAWAI studied archaeology at Waseda University and obtained his PhD in Egyptology at the Johns Hopkins University, and is currently Professor of Egyptology at Kanazawa University, Japan.

  • Yasushi Okada (Author)

    YASUSHI OKADA obtained his PhD in Cultural Property at Tokyo University of the Arts and currently is Associate Professor in Conservation at Teikyo University, Japan.

  • Takeshi Oishi (Author)

    TAKASHI OISHI obtained his PhD at the University of Tokyo, and currently is Associate Professor at the Institute of the Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo.

  • Masataka Kagesawa (Author)

    MASATAKA KAGESAWA obtained his PhD at the University of Tokyo, and currently is Assistant Professor at the Institute of the Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo.

  • Akiko Nishisaka (Author)

    AKIKO NISHISAKA earned her MA in archaeology at Waseda University and MSc in Heritage Studies at the Institute of Archaeology in UCL, and currently is deputy project manager of the Grand Egyptian Museum Joint Conservation Project.

  • Hussein Kamal (Author)

    HUSSEIN KAMAL earned his PhD in Conservation at Cairo University, and currently is General Director of Conservation Technical Affairs, Grand Egyptian Museum.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/cipeg.2020.4.76661

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URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-cipeg-766614 (PDF)

Abstract

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities have been collaborating on the Grand Egyptian Museum Joint Conservation Project (GEM-JC), and since 2016 this team carried out the scientific research of the ‘second state chariot’ (JE61990). In the course of the detailed  condition survey of the chariot, localized surface damage from where material had been anciently torn away from the corners and near the rear of the exterior sides of the chariot’s body was observed. Carter’s assistant Arthur Mace had noted this and assumed some metal elements had been wrenched off from these locations. Recently, the late Edwin C. Brock concluded that these remnants were fitting places of the four support poles of the canopy frame hitherto dubbed by Carter as Tutankhamun’s ‘travelling canopy’ (JE60705). Detailed measurements of both the chariot and canopy have now proved Brock’s hypothesis that the two items indeed made a canopied chariot. This paper also presents new discoveries and offers a tentative virtual reconstruction as support for the inclusion of virtual museum displays in galleries.

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Published
2020-11-06
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No. 4 (2020)
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