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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 Hooton 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.
Illustrator Anne Hooton
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
catalogued finds for publication
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