This bulletin, is the latest part of an annual series which Archetype Publications publishes in association with the British Museum. The British Museum Technical Research Bulletin offers a forum to show a dynamic behind-the-scenes glimpse of the current work which curators, conservators and scientists have conducted on a range of artefacts and materials across the collections at the British Museum. 12 months after publication, the articles of each bulletin are uploaded onto the British Museum website for public viewing.
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Foreword - David Saunders
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
