Dr Kay Sunahara

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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

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

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

This is worth a read. I just finished send the link to folks I care about seeing as the season for gathering indoors is upon us.

https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/you-may-be-early-but-youre-not-wrong?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

You May Be Early, but You're Not Wrong: A Covid Reading List

Show this to your friends and family.

OK Doomer
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
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

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

RT @[email protected]

'Sand blasting' reduces surfaces at worrying speed. Compare the photo by F. Hinkel from 1985 + my photo of the same spot from 2015, 30 yrs later. Read up on preservation + protection efforts by Sudanese + German archaeologists + conservators @[email protected]: https://www.dainst.org/en/-/sudanesisch-deutscher-restaurierungslehrgang-an-den-pyramiden-von-meroe

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CoKleinitz/status/1595452889765396480

News - Dainst

Successful training despite Covid-19

Thanks to Jack Blackburn for airing concerns of the #archaeology community about #AncientApocalypse in
@thetimes

I was quoted: "I was shocked at how strongly aggressive this was. One of the things I’m wondering is if they are actively trying to appeal to a post-truth, conspiracy crowd"

"Despite what he thinks, archaeologists don’t hate Graham Hancock,” Dibble said. “He’s just wrong.”

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2a28c584-6aa5-11ed-85fc-6c020d5ba0b7?shareToken=eb4656b2d9773b944e5c44c4e0822276

Fishy Netflix Atlantis show needs a big pinch of salt, say archaeologists

Twelve thousand years ago or thereabouts, the antediluvian era was ended when a great flood wiped out a sophisticated and advanced human society, washing it fr

The Times
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