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