Dr Kay Sunahara

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She/her | Archaeologist working for a museum | It's about context | #MuseumWork | Collections Care | IAQ FTW 💨
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Dr Kay SunaharaFeb 17, 2023

Colour photo from yesterday vs archival black & white image from 1970 - same ancient Roman glass flask, dated to about 275-325 CE. Both pics are important to keep as objects can change, even deteriorate, over the years.

#MuseumWork #CollectionCare #Photography #Glass #technology #Archaeology #Documentation @ROMtoronto

Dr Kay SunaharaJan 1, 2023

Reflecting on 2022 & Kore670 loan to @romtoronto, I didn't really "see" this pic, though I took it! Acropolis Museum courier documents the condition of the kore before crating & transport back to Greece.

#KoreCheck #Kore670 #2022recap #HappyNewYear #MuseumWork #documentation

Dr Kay SunaharaDec 20, 2022
A favourite bit of ancient mosaic #glass @ROMtoronto 3.5 × 3.2cm shard with the eye & upper gills of a colorful fish from Alexandria, #Egypt about 100BCE-100CE
#MuseumWork #fish
Dr Kay SunaharaDec 15, 2022
One of my favourite Romano-British sherds
@ROMtoronto
"London Ware" style bowl fragment, only 6.5cm tall but you can still see the pinpoints where the potter applied a compass to engrave the semi-circle motifs! c. 75-200 CE #MuseumWork #ChaîneOpératoire #Ceramics #Archaeology
Dr Kay SunaharaNov 28, 2022
Be sure to keep your receipts! This one from Roman Egypt on the back of a broken piece of pottery, in ancient Greek script, dated 166 CE for Aprius Gemellus' half load of chaff to heat the baths. In the collections at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

#MuseumWork #Archaeology #Receipts #KeepYourReceipts #YouNeverKnow
Dr Kay SunaharaNov 24, 2022

The world is in chaos, arrgh! Just trying to keep track of all the Alexanders ... as in silver tetradrachms of Alexander the Great, this one minted in Amphipolis, #Greece

#MuseumWork #coins #numismatics 😅 #artifacts #Hercules #CollectionCare

Dr Kay SunaharaNov 22, 2022
Day in the life of a collections care specialist: ancient Greek & Roman coin pop-up exhibit in the main hall, tracking down 1970's publication pics of a Ptolemaic clay sealing from Edfu, Egypt, photographing late Bronze Age Greek pottery
#MuseumWork #CameraRoll #archaeology #artifacts #ceramics #coins
Dr Kay SunaharaNov 18, 2022

An ostrakon fragment with ancient Greek script recording money payments by several individuals. From Thebes, Egypt, dated about 100-200 CE. Broken bits of ceramic were often used as receipts.

#MuseumWork #Archaeology #Epigraphy #Ceramics #AncientGreek #Egypt