British Museum Technical Research Bulletin Volume 8

Abstract

• The contents of the eighth volume of the British Museum Technical Research Bulletin reflects the diverse collections held by the British Museum, with subjects ranging from an Aleut cape and cap to Ming dynasty paper money. Contents: Technical study of a rare Venetian turquoise glass goblet from the Waddesdon Bequest (Dora Thornton, Ian Freestone, William Gudenrath, Martina Bertini, Andrew Meek and Denise Ling) Technological insights into madder pigment production in antiquity (Vincent Daniels, Thibaut Devièse, Marei Hacke and Catherine Higgitt) Sacred souvenir: the Holy Sepulchre models in the British Museum (Jonathan Williams, Philip Kevin, Caroline Cartwright and Jacob Norris) The study and conservation of the silk painting Death of the Buddha (Keisuke Sugiyama, Tim Clark, Janet Ambers and Giovanni Verri) Etruscan women’s clothing and its decoration: the polychrome gypsum statue from the ‘Isis Tomb’ at Vulci (Giovanni Verri, Margarita Gleba, Judith Swaddling, Timothy Long, Janet Ambers and Tomasina Munden) An Aleut cape and cap made of sea mammal intestine: from storage to display (Vanessa Sáiz Gómez, Caroline R. Cartwright, Jonathan C.H. King and Pippa Cruickshank) Xenon flash for reflectance and luminescence (multispectral) imaging in cultural heritage applications (Giovanni Verri and David Saunders) Polychromy in Roman Egypt: a study of a limestone sculpture of the Egyptian god Horus (Joanne Dyer, Elisabeth R. O’Connell and Antony Simpson) Microscopical examination of fibres used in Ming dynasty paper money (Caroline R. Cartwright, Christina M. Duffy and Helen Wang) Analysis of pigment palettes as evidence for room status in Nero’s Golden House (Emma Payne and Dirk Booms)