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Gordion Objects Conservation: Treating Bronze Objects
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Dispatches about archaeological conservation, Turkey, and daily life at Gordion. Sunday, July 4, 2010. The standard procedure for treating bronze objects at Gordion follows these general procedures:. If necessary, objects are desalinated to remove soluble salts and. Chemical residues from previous treatments. The objects are mechanically cleaned, using a glass bristle brush and. Scalpel, and then brushed with ethanol. They are then degreased with acetone and placed into a solution of BTA in. Has much mor...
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Gordion Objects Conservation: Tomb Monkeys
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Dispatches about archaeological conservation, Turkey, and daily life at Gordion. Wednesday, July 6, 2011. The entrance into the Midas Tumulus. In addition to working on the artifacts in the Gordion Museum and in storage we also do some work in the fabulous wooden tomb chamber inside the Midas Tumulus. The Midas Tumulus is one of the archaeological resources open to the public in and around the village of Yass ıhöyük. Located across from the Gordion Museum it gets up to 60,000 visitors every year. We are ...
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Gordion Objects Conservation: June 2011
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Dispatches about archaeological conservation, Turkey, and daily life at Gordion. Sunday, June 26, 2011. Soccer and Mulberries in Yassihoyuk. One afternoon, during our walk to the museum, we passed by the Yassihoyuk mosque. The courtyard of the mosque was filled with children from the village. We stopped to say hello and practice our Turkish. I do believe one boy said "Your Turkish is bad." Children are so honest. Soccer in the mosque courtyard. Angie joins the soccer game. Links to this post. The adhesiv...
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Gordion Objects Conservation: Environmental Monitoring
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Dispatches about archaeological conservation, Turkey, and daily life at Gordion. Sunday, July 11, 2010. Hygrothermographs were used in the past to monitor the conditions in the tomb chamber, but have now been replaced by electronic dataloggers. These dataloggers monitor the fluctuations in relative humidity and temperature, and are downloaded yearly to check the data. Richard Liebhart removes a datalogger placed. Inside the wooden tomb. Emily and Elizabeth change the batteries on the dataloggers. Has muc...
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Gordion Objects Conservation: Site Conservation at Gordion
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Dispatches about archaeological conservation, Turkey, and daily life at Gordion. Tuesday, July 12, 2011. Site Conservation at Gordion. Gordion site conservators at work. Photo by Andrea Berlin. An average visit to Gordion will include three stops: the museum, the Midas Tumulus, and the site located on the mound. For the last few seasons, Frank Matero and his students at the University of Pennsylvania programs in Architecture. Have been diligently working on preserving the site. Visitors to the site.
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Gordion Objects Conservation: Saf Su (Pure or Distilled Water) at Gordion
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Dispatches about archaeological conservation, Turkey, and daily life at Gordion. Friday, July 1, 2011. Saf Su (Pure or Distilled Water) at Gordion. Our goal: obtaining saf su. Discussing the deionizing column with a chemical salesman in Ankara. Angie sets up the still outside of the lab. Feeling sorry for the water-deprived objects conservators, Gordion. Archaeologists purchased these cute little bottles of distilled water. Perhaps next season will be more successful in the quest for purchasing a deioniz...
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Gordion Objects Conservation: July 2012
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Dispatches about archaeological conservation, Turkey, and daily life at Gordion. Tuesday, July 24, 2012. An archaeological excavation demonstrates the complementary skills of archaeologists and conservators and many others. Archaeologists are experts in the history and material culture of a site, while conservators are knowledgeable about the materials and techniques used to create art and artifacts as well the steps needed to conserve and restore things. The fragments of this alabastron. Now the object ...
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Gordion Objects Conservation: Road Trip to Hittite Sites
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Dispatches about archaeological conservation, Turkey, and daily life at Gordion. Monday, July 4, 2011. Road Trip to Hittite Sites. From left to right:. Cybele Tom (NYU Conservation Program, Sardis Conservation Intern). Jessica Pace (NYU Conservation Program, Sardis Conservation Intern). Alex Lim (Research Fellow, UPenn Architectural Conservation Laboratory). Lucas Stephens (Doctoral Student, UPenn AAMW Program). Yielding to a flock of geese on our way to Hattusa. Yazilikaya, and Alacahoyuk. This grou...
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Gordion Objects Conservation: Preventive conservation at Gordion
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Dispatches about archaeological conservation, Turkey, and daily life at Gordion. Sunday, July 22, 2012. Preventive conservation at Gordion. Welcome back to another season of Objects Conservation at Gordion. The team this year is Jessie Johnson, Cricket Harbeck, Julie Unruh in a cameo appearance, and me, Elizabeth La Duc, a graduate student in art conservation at Buffalo State College. This is my first season at Gordion, and I’m very excited to be here. As mentioned in an earlier. Copper alloy objects at ...
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Gordion Objects Conservation: July 2014
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Dispatches about archaeological conservation, Turkey, and daily life at Gordion. Saturday, July 5, 2014. A Salty Phrygian Trefoil Jug. We started this season at Gordion with a condition survey. Of the collection on view at the Gordion Museum. This survey of the museum collection occurs on a yearly basis to allow condition comparison with previous years. This year during our survey a trefoil ceramic jug had developed the presence of salts. A common problem with some archaeological materials. The general t...
