Putting the finishing touches on the shabti box
I have put a lot of work into our troubled shabti box, including investigating and analyzing the varnish (more on the analysis in an upcoming post), doing some pretty cool imaging, and consolidating...
View ArticleSpring cleaning?
It may be a little early for spring cleaning, but no matter what time of the year, there is not much that I find more satisfying than a good, deep clean (on a grimy artifact). Last week, Tom Stanley...
View ArticleObservations of a stola coffin lid
As if there is not enough up here (see our recent post about the Egyptian storage move and associated conservation work), this week we brought another quite large object into the lab, and it might be...
View ArticleX-raying fragments of a painted wooden coffin
I recently completed the treatment of these coffin board fragments. E12617A-C, boards from a painted wooden coffin, before treatment In addition to the cleaning, which I blogged about before, the...
View ArticleExamination of Wooden Tomb Models
Hi everyone! This is Alexis North, and I’m the project conservator at the Penn Museum working on the Egyptian storage move project, which has been referenced here on the blog a few times. I wanted to...
View ArticlePtah-Sokar-Osiris and Treating Painted Surfaces
Julia Commander is a third-year graduate student in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. She is currently completing a curriculum internship at the Penn Museum. As a...
View ArticleConsidering Cleaning
Julia Commander is a third-year graduate student in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. She is currently completing a curriculum internship at the Penn Museum. It’s time...
View ArticleCleaning Questions and Cross-Sections
Julia Commander is a third-year graduate student in the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. She is currently completing a curriculum internship at the Penn Museum. The...
View Article2D to 3D
By Chelsea Kim As an intern working with the conservation department, I have received the opportunity to work on many projects and experience things I never thought I would. Recently I have been...
View ArticleWhat’s all that 3D data for?
By Tessa de Alarcon We’ve had a few posts (this one by Chelsea Kim and this one by Christy Ching) on creating 3D models using photogrammetry, and I thought I’d give some examples of what we are doing...
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