Anastylose
The anastylose is an archaeological term which indicates the technique of rebuilding of a monument in ruin thanks to the methodical study of the adjustment of the various elements which compose its Architecture.
When elements are missing, one can have recourse to additions of modern elements (Ciment, Plâtre, resin…)
The anastylose has many detractors in the scientific circle. Indeed it poses a certain number of problems:
- Whatever rigorous that is to say the prior study with the anastylose, a mistake in interpretation can carry out to reconstitute the monument in an erroneous way.
- the possible damage (often tiny) which can undergo the elements during the assembly.
- the fact that the same element can be used in various monuments at various periods. To use this element in a construction industry, it is to deny the different ones.
Examples of anastylose:
- with large scales on many monuments of the site of Angkor to the Kampuchea, on the initiative of the French School of the Far East and except for the Your Prohm left in the state;
- restoration of the funerary complex of the king Djoser by Jean-Philippe Lauer (Saqqarah);
- the Gantry of Attale on the Greek Agora of Athens, by the American School of Archeology (1937);
- the red vault (Karnak);
- the Stûpa of Borobudur, Indonesia;
- the palate crétois of Cnossos by the archeologist Arthur John Evans;
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