Egypt
Brooklyn Museum Blog
- Repairing The Book Of The Dead
Brooklyn Museum (Rachel Danzing) With photos. Repairing papyrus can be a little like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. In order to make sense of the many small pieces at hand, we take advantage of the various examination techniques we have here in the...
- Radiocarbon Dating Of Book Of The Dead Of Sobekmose
Brooklyn Museum (Rachel Danzing) Accompanied by some lovely photos. Our research to further understand the Book of the Dead of the Goldworker Amun, Sobekmose continues. Carbon-14 (C-14) dating was one of the first scientific analytical techniques that...
- Pigments And Inks Typically Used On Papyrus
Brooklyn Museum (Rachel Danzig) A really fascinating blog post, which I missed back in September, about the materials which were used to write on and illustrate papyri, using the example of the New Kingdom papyrus, the Book of the Dead of the Goldworker...
- Online Journal: Spectral Imaging Of Ostraca
PalArch Gregory Bearman* & William A. Christens-Barry Bearman, G. & W.A. Christens-Barry. 2009. Spectral Imaging of Ostraca Palarch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology 6(7) (2009), 1-20. ABSTRACT By analogy with ancient texts, infrared...
- The Goldworker Of Amun Sobekmose
Here we have the Book of the dead of Sobekmose an 18th dynasty goldworker of Amun. Sobekmose lived within the reign of Thutmosis III to his son Amenhotep II, between 1479bce - 1400bce, At such a date it makes Sobekmose's one of the earliest Books...
Egypt
IR and UV Examination of Egyptian Papyrus
Brooklyn Museum Blog
Another installment in the excellent series from the Brooklyn Museum which gives a real insight into the detailed work carried out by museums. With photographs.
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 ones used on this object in particular. I will start with two imaging techniques: infrared reflectography and ultraviolet fluorescence photography.
We typically use traditional photography to record images of artifacts in the visible light spectrum; this way we record on a digital file that which the human eye can see (fig.1). However, this technique can provide only a limited amount of information, since the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum is a very small portion (400-700nm) of the entire spectrum. By eliminating the visible light using barrier filters, we are able to record images that the unaided human eye could not detect.
- Repairing The Book Of The Dead
Brooklyn Museum (Rachel Danzing) With photos. Repairing papyrus can be a little like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. In order to make sense of the many small pieces at hand, we take advantage of the various examination techniques we have here in the...
- Radiocarbon Dating Of Book Of The Dead Of Sobekmose
Brooklyn Museum (Rachel Danzing) Accompanied by some lovely photos. Our research to further understand the Book of the Dead of the Goldworker Amun, Sobekmose continues. Carbon-14 (C-14) dating was one of the first scientific analytical techniques that...
- Pigments And Inks Typically Used On Papyrus
Brooklyn Museum (Rachel Danzig) A really fascinating blog post, which I missed back in September, about the materials which were used to write on and illustrate papyri, using the example of the New Kingdom papyrus, the Book of the Dead of the Goldworker...
- Online Journal: Spectral Imaging Of Ostraca
PalArch Gregory Bearman* & William A. Christens-Barry Bearman, G. & W.A. Christens-Barry. 2009. Spectral Imaging of Ostraca Palarch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology 6(7) (2009), 1-20. ABSTRACT By analogy with ancient texts, infrared...
- The Goldworker Of Amun Sobekmose
Here we have the Book of the dead of Sobekmose an 18th dynasty goldworker of Amun. Sobekmose lived within the reign of Thutmosis III to his son Amenhotep II, between 1479bce - 1400bce, At such a date it makes Sobekmose's one of the earliest Books...