Name of Object:

Trail from the village of Deir el-Medina to the Valley of the Queens

Name in original language:

Sentiero dal villaggio di Deir el-Medina alla Valle delle Regine

Location:

Turin, Italy

Holding Institution:

Soprintendenza Archeologia del Piemonte: Authority for the Archaeological Heritage of Piedmont

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Holding Institution (original language):

Soprintendenza Archeologia del Piemonte

Date of Object:

Between 1903 and 1909

Author:

Photographer unknown

Inventory Number:

Inv. C 805

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Silver bromide negative impressed on glass plate

Dimensions:

18 x 13 cm

Provenance:

Egypt

Description:

This photograph was taken by an unknown author during the excavations led by Ernesto Schiaparelli in Egypt. Schiaparelli (1856-1928) was Director of the Egyptian Museum of Florence from 1881 to 1894 and in 1894 became Director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin. The photograph shows a section of a trail in the south of Deir el-Bahri. It is easy to recognize the ruins of a residential district, which presumably hosted the workers and the artisans involved in the works for the tombs of the Valley of the Queens. Ernesto Schiaparelli, first as museum director and then as excavation superintendent from 1907 to his death, led several excavation campaigns around 1903-1914 in the Valley of the Queens, a place dedicated to the burial of wives, princes and princesses since the reign of Rameses I.

Additional Copyright Information:

Copyright image: Museo Egizio di Torino - Archivi Soprintendenza Archeologia del Piemonte.

Citation of this web page:

Marcella Trapani "Trail from the village of Deir el-Medina to the Valley of the Queens" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;172;en

Prepared by: Marcella Trapani
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT2 030