We have been notably quiet on this blog lately, but that doesn't mean that we haven't been making a lot of noise elsewhere!
Project Conservator Anna O'Neill Alexander uses a PaleoTool to remove old restoration plaster that surrounds an ancient Egyptian limestone fragment. The limestone fragment is part of a column from the palace complex of Merenptah, which dates to 1224-1204 BCE. See the (noisy) video footage of her at work here.
We also have some BIG imminent deadlines, which have kept us very busy, and some of our monumental projects are so BIG that they can't even be worked on within the Museum building. More on that soon.
All of that aside, we continue to work on projects in the Artifact Lab, that are not as big, necessarily, but are just as important. Most of the artifacts we are working on are to prepare for the future installation of our new Ancient Egypt and Nubia Galleries.
Project Conservator Teresa Jimenez-Millas is currently working on the coffin and mummy of Petiese in the Artifact Lab. Here she is using an adhesive solution to stabilize the painted surface of Petiese's coffin lid. Petiese was an Egyptian priest who lived during the Late Period (664 – 332 BCE).
To hear more about all these projects in REAL TIME, check out our 1-hour #AskAConservator Q&A session next Monday, November 4th, on the Penn Museum's twitter account, or visit us when the Museum is open, where EVERY day is Ask a Conservator Day!
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