BRITISH MUSEUM TECHNICAL RESEARCH BULLETIN Vol.3

SAUNDERS, DAVID

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ISBN:978-1-904982-48-7
EAN:9781904982487
Editorial: ARCHETYPE PUBLICATIONS
Fecha de la edición:2009
Número de la edición: 1
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/ ARTE Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES / CONSERVACIÓN, RESTAURACIÓN Y MUSEOLOGÍA

This bulletin, the third of a new annual series which Archetype Publications is publishing in association with the British Museum, offers a new forum, to show a dynamic behind-the-scenes glimpse of current work of curators, conservators and scientists, conducted on a range of artefacts and materials across the collections at the British Museum Contents -Sailing through history: conserving and researching a rare Tahitian canoe sail -Limoges painted enamels: evidence for specialist copper-smithing workshops -Egyptian stelae on Malta -Analysis of a gold mancus of Coenwulf of Mercia and other comparable coins -Early porcelain in seventeenth-century England: non-destructive examination of two jars from Burghley House -The manufacture of a small crystal skull purported to be from ancient Mexico -Assyrian colours: pigments on a neo-Assyrian relief of a parade horse -A Great Lakes pouch: black-dyed skin with porcupine quillwork -Bronzes from the Sacred Animal Necropolis at Saqqara, Egypt: a study of the metals and corrosion -An unfinished Achaemenid sculpture from Persepolis -Scientific investigation of pottery grinding bowls from the Archaic and Classical Eastern Mediterranean -Establishing best practice in asbestos removal: the management of unique Medieval floor tile assemblages The Middle Bronze Age furniture from Tomb P19 at Jericho: wood identification and conservation challenges