The British Museum Technical Research Bulletin, Volume 2

Edited by David Saunders

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Extent: 88 pages

Publisher: Archetype Publications Ltd 

Subjects: Art & Art History, Book History, Conservation, & Museum Studies

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(November 2008)

ISBN: 9781904982357

8.27 x 11.65 inches

Price: $70.00

In stock

This bulletin, is part of an annual series which Archetype Publications publishes in association with the British Museum. The British Museum Technical Research Bulletin offers a forum to show a dynamic behind-the-scenes glimpse of the current work which curators, conservators and scientists have conducted on a range of artefacts and materials across the collections at the British Museum. 12 months after publication, the articles of each bulletin are uploaded onto the British Museum website for public viewing.


This bulletin, is part of an annual series which Archetype Publications publishes in association with the British Museum. The British Museum Technical Research Bulletin offers a forum to show a dynamic behind-the-scenes glimpse of the current work which curators, conservators and scientists have conducted on a range of artefacts and materials across the collections at the British Museum.

Foreword David Saunders A new look at an old cat: a technical investigation of the Gayer-Anderson cat Janet Ambers, Duncan Hook, Neal Spencer, Fleur Shearman, Susan La Niece, Rebecca Stacey and Caroline Cartwright A musical instrument fit for a queen: the metamorphosis of a Medieval citole Philip Kevin, James Robinson, Susan La Niece, Caroline Cartwright and Chris Egerton The manufacture and decoration of Parthian glazed 'slipper coffins' from Warka Andrew Middleton, St John Simpson and Antony P. Simpson Conservation assessment of the Neanderthal human remains from Krapina, Croatia and its implications for the debate on the display and loan of human fossils Jill Cook and Clare Ward Analysis and conservation of a weeping glass scarab Philip J. Fletcher, Ian Freestone and Rainer Geschke The photo-ageing behaviour of selected watercolour paints under anoxic conditions Capucine Korenberg Scientific aspects of ancient faces: mummy portraits from Egypt Caroline Cartwright and Andrew Middleton A Spanish Medieval altar 'set': new investigation and assessment of its date and manufacture Maickel van Bellegem, Stefan Rohrs and Bet McLeod Wooden Egyptian archery bows in the collections of the British Museum Caroline Cartwright and John H. Taylor,

Foreword

David Saunders

A new look at an old cat: a technical investigation of the Gayer-Anderson cat

Janet Ambers, Duncan Hook, Neal Spencer, Fleur Shearman, Susan La Niece, Rebecca Stacey and Caroline Cartwright

A musical instrument fit for a queen: the metamorphosis of a Medieval citole

Philip Kevin, James Robinson, Susan La Niece, Caroline Cartwright and Chris Egerton

The manufacture and decoration of Parthian glazed 'slipper coffins' from Warka

Andrew Middleton, St John Simpson and Antony P. Simpson

Conservation assessment of the Neanderthal human remains from Krapina, Croatia and its implications for the debate on the display and loan of human fossils

Jill Cook and Clare Ward

Analysis and conservation of a weeping glass scarab

Philip J. Fletcher, Ian Freestone and Rainer Geschke

The photo-ageing behaviour of selected watercolour paints under anoxic conditions

Capucine Korenberg

Scientific aspects of ancient faces: mummy portraits from Egypt

Caroline Cartwright and Andrew Middleton

A Spanish Medieval altar 'set': new investigation and assessment of its date and manufacture

Maickel van Bellegem, Stefan Röhrs and Bet McLeod

Wooden Egyptian archery bows in the collections of the British Museum

Caroline Cartwright and John H. Taylor

  • Edited by David Saunders

"This new publication series from the BM will certainly be a standard bearer in developing professionalism of museum-based science...In short, the British Museum Technical Research Bulletin is an excellent publication...not only does it serve the conservation community by supplying information that might otherwise never see the light of day, but it also provides a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse at the internal workings of a first-rate museum laboratory." Studies in Conservation 54(3) (2009) 184-185