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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...
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Spring 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...
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Observations 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...
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X-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...
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Examination 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...
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Ptah-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...
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Considering 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...
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Cleaning 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...
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2D 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...
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What’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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