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CONSERVATION LAB AND
MAGAZZINO
Materials Processing in
the Conservation Lab and Magazzino
The magazzino houses the conservation lab,
the finds photography lab, cataloguing, illustration, and storage
for finds and tools.
2007 Conservation and Illustration
lab and staff:
Josiah Wagener, Allison Lewis, Wendy Walker, and Anne Hooton
Chris White, Nicole Beratesqui,
and Anna Serotta in the 2006 lab.
Gretchen Meyers shows a bucchero vessel to visitors.
Anna Serotta conserves a bronze find from Trench PC 29.
Conservation Intern Vanessa Saiz in 2005.
Above and below: the
2004 lab and magazzino in Vicchio.
Left to right: Karen Stamm, Amy Leach, and Mary Schafer in the
lab in 2001.
Cataloguing and Storage
Robert Belanger cleans and
drawing finds from his trench in the pottery
shed at Vigna, before they are moved to the magazzino for processing.
Gretchen Meyers catalogues finds
and stores them in the magazzino.
Conservation
Finds are cleaned and consolidated
by conservators in the lab.
For field reports on the conservation lab
and magazzino, see Conservation.
Illustration
2005 Illustrator Anne Hooten at
work.
Illustrators draw catalogued and conserved
objects in the magazzino. Profiles, reconstructions, and surface
decorations are among the concerns of the illustrator. Drawings
made to scale add to the kind of information recorded in photographs
and to the information used by staff and other researchers to
analyze the material culture of Poggio Colla.
2005 Illustrator Anne Hooten
drawing the hearth in Trench PC 23.
Left: Kathy Windrow teaching an archaeological
illustration workshop. Right: Marla
Ziegler's illustration of a
bucchero lid. Drawings show the object's profile to the left
and projected reconstruction to the right.
Photography
Catalogued finds are photographed in color
as well as in black and white. These photographs are kept in
the archives at SMU and are used for publications by the professional
staff of the excavation. Finds are also photographed digitally
for our CD-Rom image archives. Director Greg Warden is our official
object photographer.
Director Greg Warden shoots
all the catalogued finds for publication.
Co-Directors: Gregory
Warden gwarden@mail.smu.edu and Michael Thomas
mlthomas@mail.utexas.edu
Excavation house phone during the
field season: (011-39) 055-844-9834
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