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Category Archives: Conservation
IR and UV Examination of Egyptian Papyrus
Following Rachel’s previous discussion on pigments and inks used in our Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose, I will begin here our discussion of the different examination and analytical techniques we employ in conservation and the … Continue reading
Cents Sign Traveling From Broadway to Africa via Guadeloupe
When I first saw Chryssa’s neon sculpture in storage in late 2004, the object was in an unexhibitable state, missing the two end pieces of the Plexiglas box, with scratches and small losses on the existing sides of the box. We … Continue reading
Pigments and Inks Typically Used on Papyrus
This is the third blog post on the Museum’s extraordinary New Kingdom papyrus, the Book of the Dead of the Goldworker Amun, Sobekmose. My colleagues previously posted blogs on what exactly papyrus is, how it was made and formatted into … Continue reading
The Egyptian Papyrus “Book”
Once a papyrus sheet was formed it was joined together with other sheets to form long rolls. The papyrus roll format dates back to ~3,000 BCE and there is little evidence individual sheets were ever used alone. Smaller papyrus documents … Continue reading
Making Papyrus in the Conservation Lab
Before we began treatment on the Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose papyrus scroll, the staff of the paper conservation lab decided to make our own papyrus sheets. As with any conservation treatment that we do, … Continue reading
Papyrus: Secret of the Egyptians
Although the making of papyrus as a writing support is almost 5,000 years old, not a single written description by the Egyptians exist to explain their process. Pictorial displays in tomb murals and carvings never reveal the process of sheet … Continue reading
A new project and a few surprises
To the ancient Egyptians, magic (heqa in ancient Egyptian) was a potent force that could be used by deities and humans to influence the mortal world. These blocks come from a small (less than 2 meters square) 26th Dynasty magical … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Egyptian Art
Tagged archeology, Conservation, digdiary2010, egypt, expedition
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Live Tweeting Mummy Wrapping and Conservator Q&A Tuesday!
If you were following us on Twitter last June, you probably remember us live tweeting as a group of mummies were taken to North Shore University Hospital for CT scanning. Tomorrow, our conservators are going to be in our conservation … Continue reading
Take a seat…
Starting on December 2nd, that’s exactly what you’ll be able to do in the Museum’s Fourth Floor Schenck Gallery—in a handcrafted replica of our 17th-century, American, Wainscot Chair. The detailed carving, turning and mortise-and-tenon joinery of the original chair were … Continue reading
Birdmaster Tames the Lion
To those of you who are regular readers to this blog, you may remember my colleague, Jakki Godfrey’s post from May 27 detailing the deinstallation of the dragon and zinc lion to accommodate roof work. Over the summer, both objects … Continue reading
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Animal Mummy Update
Those of you who are 1stfans got an introduction to the animal mummy research project being done at the Museum when we held an informal presentation about the project to look at some x-radiographs and see some animal mummies up … Continue reading
The Installation of Reception
Through the generosity of Beth Rudin DeWoody, the Museum recently acquired a multiple component installation piece made by the artist Vadis Turner, which will be included as part of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. The installation titled … Continue reading
Sun Bleaching in the Sculpture Garden
What is the Brooklyn Museum’s important Arshile Gorky lithograph doing outdoors? And why is it immersed in water? I received these questions many times from museum visitors and employees who strolled by my light-bleaching set-up outside the building’s staff entrance … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Contemporary Art
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Male and Female Mummies: Bad Grammar, Bad X-rays, Bad Judgment
It should not be so hard to tell a woman from a man. Yet three of the five male mummies from the Brooklyn Museum that were CT-scanned in the last eighteen months at North Shore University Hospital were at one … Continue reading
Mummy Transport
As some of you may have seen from the recent press coverage, we took four of our Egyptian human mummies to North Shore University Hospital to be CT scanned—short for computed tomography. Although the bodies were well preserved with the … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Egyptian Art
Tagged collection, mummy, mummychamber, mummyCT
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