FW: Natural Resins on band caver the mummy

[Pippa Cruickshank <PCRUICKSHANK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 

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From: Nicola Newman
Sent: 30 December 2005 09:20
To: Pippa Cruickshank
Subject: RE: Natural Resins on band caver the mummy
Importance: High

Hi Pippa

I am having a problem sending this email. As the address I took off the original keeps bouncing back. Could you do a direct reply to him and just paste my response in? If that fails I am not sure how to get in touch with him. Let me know if it works.

 

Thank you

 

Nicky

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From: Pippa Cruickshank
Sent: 22 December 2005 14:26
To: Nicola Newman
Subject: RE: Natural Resins on band caver the mummy

Nicky

Thanks for doing this!

Hope you are feeling better.

Nicole has succumbed today....

pippa

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From: Nicola Newman
Sent: 22 December 2005 11:46
To: TEXCONS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Pippa Cruickshank; CDSDayfile
Subject: RE: Natural Resins on band caver the mummy

Dear Mr Ezzeldeen

Thank you for your enquiry about resins and residues found on Ancient Egyptian Mummy wrappings. The most successful methods for characterising residues on Mummy Wrappings are Fourier Transform Infra Red Spectroscopy (FTIR) and Gas Chromatography Mass spectrometry (GCMS). The most common resins found on Ancient Egyptian Mummy wrappings are outlined in the the Resins chapter of:

Nicholson, P.T and Shaw, I (eds). (2000).  Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology, P.T. Nicholson and I. Shaw (eds), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

However, much of the staining to be found on Mummy wrappings is found to be a mixture of resins and body fluids.  I must stress that it would not be considered an ethical treatment to remove either resins or body fluids from Mummy wrappings. I would consider any original residues on Mummy wrappings to be integral to the integrity and authenticity of the object.

 

I hope this answers you questions.

Yours faithfully

Nicola Newman
Conservator
Organic Artefacts Section
Department of Conservation, Documentation and Science
The British Museum
Great Russell Street
London
WC1B 3DG

Tel: 020 7323 8252
nnewman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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From: Textile Conservators [mailto:TEXCONS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of harby ezzeldeen
Sent: 20 December 2005 23:05
To: TEXCONS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Natural Resins on band caver the mummy

Hi everyone

    I have the pleaure e-mailing yours, and I have big question, I am Ph.D student my work about ( Enzymes application for textiles ) , I have samples from linen textiles that used as a band cover and enfold the mummy from ancient egypt , i will make analysis for natural resins that are on textiles enfold to choose suitable ezyme for cleaning .
   are anyone have idea or information about :-

1) what kind of analysis suitable for this .

2) what kind of resins that expected be on my samples.

   accept my deep thanks

         Harby Ezzeldeen

   M.A in textiles conservation.

   Conservation depatment - Cairo univeristy .

  Ph.D holder in biochemical department

  National techical Univeristy of athens.

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