British Museum Technical Research Bulletin

All the articles included in volume 3 of the British Museum
Technical Research Bulletin (2009), which are listed below, are now
available for free download from the Research section of the British
Museum website

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    The image revealed: study and conservation of
    mid-nineteenth-century Ethiopian church painting

    Sailing through history: conserving and researching a rare
    Tahitian canoe sail

    Limoges painted enamels: evidence for specialist copper-smithing
    workshops

    Egyptian stelae from Malta

    Analysis of a gold mancus of Coenwulf of Mercia and other
    comparable coins

    Early porcelain in seventeenth-century England: non-destructive
    examination of two jars from Burghley House

    The manufacture of a small crystal skull purported to be from
    ancient Mexico

    Assyrian colours: pigments on a neo-Assyrian relief of a parade
    horse

    A Great Lakes pouch: black-dyed skin with porcupine quillwork

    Bronzes from the Sacred Animal Necropolis at Saqqara, Egypt: a
    study of the metals and corrosion

    An unfinished Achaemenid sculpture from Persepolis

    Scientific investigation of pottery grinding bowls from the
    Archaic and Classical Eastern Mediterranean

    Establishing best practice in asbestos removal: the management
    of unique Medieval floor tile assemblages

    The Middle Bronze Age furniture from Tomb P19 at Jericho: wood
    identification and conservation challenges

    Volume 4 of the British Museum Technical Research Bulletin will
    be published in November 2010 in association with Archetype
    Publications (<URL:http://www.archetype.co.uk>) from whom copies
    can be ordered; it will be available online from autumn 2011.
    The papers included in volume 4 are:

    The image revealed: study and conservation of a
    mid-nineteenth-century Ethiopian church painting

    Coatings and contents: investigations of residues on four
    fragmentary sixth-century BC vessels from Naukratis (Egypt)

    A gold four-horse model chariot from the Oxus Treasure: a fine
    illustration of Achaemenid goldwork

    The 'Treu Head': a case study in Roman sculptural polychromy

    Change and stasis: the technology of Dark Age metalwork from the
    Carpathian Basin

    Investigating the construction methods of an opus vermiculatum
    mosaic panel

    Assessing the effects of alkaline desalination treatments for
    archaeological iron using scanning electron microscopy

    Colour holography of the oldest known work of art from Wales

    New light on old swords from Iran

David Saunders
Department of Conservation and Scientific Research
The British Museum


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