IIC 2010 Istanbul Congress

Recent efforts in Istanbul to protect museum collections from damage due to earthquakes

Bilgen Sungay, Nevra Erturk, Eser Cakti, Mustafa Erdik and Jerry Podany

In situ preservation of a deep-sea wreck site: Sinop D in the Black Sea

Dennis Piechota, Robert D. Ballard, Bridget Buxton and Michael Brennan

Conservation of the gold-embroidered epitaphios from the St Paul Monastery, Mount Athos: the hidden story of an ecclesiastical textile

Tatiana Kousoulou

Conservation and preservation of the cultural heritage of ancient theatres and odea in the Eastern Mediterranean

Naif Adel Haddad and Leen Adeeb Fakhoury

Are Attic vases ‘archaeological’?

Christina Rozeik, Julie Dawson and Lucy Wrapson

Building capacity for the conservation of mosaics in the Mediterranean: the MOSAIKON initiative

Kathleen Dardes, Jeanne Marie Teutonico, Catherine Antomarchi and Zaki Aslan

Islamic copper-based metalwork from the Eastern Mediterranean: technical investigation and conservation issues

Susan La Niece

The preservation of Ottoman manuscripts

Nurçin Kural

Conservation of the Turkish collection at the Chester Beatty Library: a new study of Turkish book construction

Kristine Rose

Islamic bookbindings in the manuscript collection of the Marciana National Library in Venice

Silvia Pugliese

Learning from the past: using original techniques to conserve a twelfth-century illuminated manuscript and its sixteenth-century Greek-style binding at the Monastery of St Catharine, Sinai

Andrew Honey and Nicholas Pickwoad

Technical study of a fifteenth-century Armenian illuminated gospel from the Verin Noravank Monastery

Lynn B. Brostoff, Yasmeen R. Khan, Tamara Ohanyan and Frank Hengemihle

Newly identified techniques in the production of Islamic manuscripts

Nil Baydar

Biodeterioration control for the Athens Acropolis monuments: strategy and constraints

Sophia Papida, Dionysis Garbis, Evi Papakonstantinou and Amalia D. Karagouni

Laser cleaning of excavated Greco-Roman glass: removal of burial encrustation and corrosion products

Abdelrazek Elnaggar, Hams Mohamed, Gamal Mahgoub and Mona Fouad

Conservation and restoration at the Ilyas Bey Mosque complex, Miletos (Balat)

Bekir Eskici and Cengiz KabaoÄŸlu

The study of religious decorative textile belonging to the Vank church in Isfahan

Hamidreza Bakhshandehfard and Elaheh Arbabzadeh Boroujeni

Painted rock-cute tombs in Cyprus from the Hellenistic and Roman periods to Byzantium: material properties, degradation processes and sustainable preservation strategies

Ioanna Kakoulli, Christian Fischer and Demetrios Michaelides

Conservation of a precious nineteenth-century fan

Michael Maggen

Preservation of the photographic heritage of the Eastern Mediterranean

Nora W. Kennedy, Debra Hess Norris, Zeina Arida and Tamara Sawaya

Stepping across the Mediterranean: conservation of a pair of pontifical sandals of the thirteenth century AD

Anna Valeria Jervis, Maria Rita Giuliani, Marcella Ioele, Michael Jung, Marica Mercalli and Federica Moretti

The Ottoman room at the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia: a technical study of its methods and materials

Idries Trevathan and Lalitha Thiagarajah

A splendid welcome to the ‘House of praises, glorious deeds and magnanimity’

Mechthild Baumeister, Beth Edelstein, Adriana Rizzo, Arianna Gambirasi, Timothy Hayes, Roos Keppler and Julia Schultz

Insight into a sophisticated painting technique: three polychrome wooden interiors from Ottoman Syria in German collections and field research in Damascus

Anke Scharrahs

Six coloured types of stone from Asia Minor used by the Romans, and their specific deterioration problems

Lorenzo Lazzarini

Transformation from chaos to knowledge: a collaboration for the sake of cultural heritage

Hande Kokten and Cengiz Cetin

Encountering challenges and finding solutions for the display of an obscured archaeological assemblage from Theva, Greece

Christina Margariti, Natalia Kallitsi, Maria Petrou and Athina Papadaki

Conserving fragments of icons: clay votive plaques from Hirbemerdon Tepe, Turkey

Karen Abend, Sara Caspi and Nicola Laneri

Preserving object in situ: the case of proskinitaria in the Greek landscape

Aristotelis Georgios Sakellariou

Formulating programs for long-term care of excavated marble: removing and suppressing biological growth

Kent Severson

Dyestuff and colour analysis of the Seljuk carpets in Konya Ethnography Museum

Recep Karadag and Türkan Yurdun

Characterization of traditional dyes of the Mediterranean area by non-invasive us-vis-nir reflectance spectroscopy

Luciana Gabriella Angelini, Sabrina Tozzi, Susanna Bracci, Franco Quercioli , Bruno Radicati and Marcello Picollo

Technological observations on the manufacture of the late Minoan goddesses from Halasmenos East Crete, as revealed during the process of conservation

Stefania Chlouveraki, Eleni Nodarou, Kleio Zervaki, Garyfalia Kostopoulou and Metaxia Tsipopoulou

Historical conditions for preserving antiquities in the Levant

Helle Strehle

Stabilization of walls with lime-mortar capping

Trevor Proudfoot and Kent Severson

A preliminary assessment of mosaic reburials in Tunisia

Thomas Roby, Livia Alberti and Aïcha Ben Abed

A unique Nabataean wall painting in Petra: conservation in situ

Aysar Akrawi and Lisa Shekede

Digital mapping of Egyptian blue: conservation implications

Giovanni Verri, David Saunders, Janet Ambers and Tracey Sweek

Tatarlı – a fifth-century BCE painted wooden tomb in Anatolia: study, conservation, restitution and reconstruction

Stefan Demeter

The Byzantine and post-Byzantine wall paintings of Cyprus: conservation practice in a context of continuing religious use

Marina Solomidou-Ieronymidou and Stephen Rickerby

Creating sustainable communities in historical heritage sites: Istanbul’s historic neighbourhoods

Müge Akkar Ercan

Archival evidence for the late-nineteenth century restoration of the Colossus in Sultanahmet Square, Istanbul

Nurcan Yazici

Poster summaries