| ISBN |
0954816935 |
| 9780954816933 |
| Corporate Author |
International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. . Congress |
| Title |
Conservation and the Eastern Mediterranean : contributions to the Istanbul Congress 20-24 September 2010 / edited by Christina Roseik, Ashok Roy and David Saunders |
| Publisher |
London : International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 2010 |
| Physical desc. |
284 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.), maps, plans ; 30 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
| Note |
At head of title: Contributions to the Istanbul Congress 20-24 September 2010 |
| CD-ROM in pocket inside front cover of book. |
| Accompanying CD-ROM contains all of the contributions in PDF format. |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Recent efforts in Istanbul to protect museum collections from damage due to earthquakes / Bilgen Sungay ... [et al.] -- In situ preservation of a deep-sea wreck site: Sinop D in the Black Sea / Dennis Piechota ... [et al.] -- Conservation of the gold-embroidered epitaphios from the St Paul Monastery, Mount Athos: the hidden story of an ecclesiastical textile / Tatiana Kousoulou -- Conservation and preservation of the cultural heritage of ancient theatres and odea in the Eastern Mediterranean / Naif Adel Haddad and Leen Adeeb Fakhoury -- Are Attic vases 'archaeological'? / Christina Roseik, Julie Dawson and Lucy Wrapson -- Building capacity for the conservation of mosaics in the Mediterranean: the Mosaikon initiative / Kathleen Dardes ... [et al.] -- Islamic copper-based metalwork from the Eastern Mediterranean: technical investigation and conservation issues / Susan La Niece -- The preservation of Ottoman manuscripts / Nurçin Kural -- Conservation of the Turkish collection at the Chester Beatty Library: a new study of Turkish book construction / Kristine Rose -- Islamic bookbindings in the manuscript collection of the Marciana National Library in Venice / Silvia Pugliese -- Learning from the past: using original techniques to conserve a twelfth-century illuminated manuscript and its sixteenth-century Greek-style binding at the Monastery of St Catherine, Sinai / Andrew Honey and Nicholas Pickwoad -- Technical study of a fifteenth-century Armenian illuminated gospel from the Verin Noravank Monastery / Lynn B. Brostoff ... [et al.] -- Newly identified techniques in the production of Islamic manuscripts / Nil Baydar -- Biodeterioration control for the Athens Acropolis monuments: strategy and constraints / Sophia Papida [et al.] -- Laser cleaning of excavated Greco-Roman glass: removal of burial encrustation and corrosion products / Abdelrazek Elnaggar ... [et al.] -- Conservation and restoration at the Ilyas Bey Mosque complex, Miletos (Balat) / Bekir Eskici and Cengiz Kabaoğlu -- The study of a religious decorative textile belonging to Vank church in Isfahan / Hamidreza Bakhshandehfard and Elaheh Arbabzadeh Boroujeni -- Painted rock-cut tombs in Cyprus from the Hellenistic and Roman periods to Byzantium: material properties, degradation processes and sustainable preservation strategies / Ioanna Kakoulli, Christian Fischer and Demetrios Michaelides -- Conservation of a precious nineteenth-century fan / Michael Maggen -- Preservation of the photographic heritage of the Eastern Mediterranean / Nora W. Kennedy ... [et al.] -- Stepping across the Mediterranean: conservation of a pair of pontifical sandals of the thirteenth century AD / Anna Valeria Jervis ... [et al.] -- The Ottoman room at the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia: a technical study of its methods and materials / Idries Trevathan and Lalitha Thiagarajah -- A splendid welcome to the 'House of praises, glorious deeds and magnanimity' / Mechthild Baumeister ... [et al.] -- Insight into a sophisticated painting technique: three polychrome wooden interiors from Ottoman Syria in German collections and field research in Damascus / Anke Scharrahs -- Six coloured types of stone from Asia Minor used by the Romans, and their specific deterioration problems / Lorenzo Lazzarini -- Transformation from chaos to knowledge: a collaboration for the sake of cultural heritage / Hande Kokten and Cengiz Cetin -- Encountering challenges and finding solutions for the display of an obscured archaeological assemblage from Theva, Greece / Christina Margariti ... [et al.] -- Conserving fragments of icons: clay votive placques from Hirbemerdon Tepe, Turkey / Karen Abend, Sara Caspi and Nicola Laneri -- Preserving objects in situ: the case of proskinitaria in the Greek landscape / Aristotelis Georgios Sakellariou -- Formulating programs for long-term care of excavated marble: removing and suppressing biological growth / Kent Severson -- Dyestuff and colour analyses of the Seljuk carpets in Konya Ethnography Museum / Recep Karadag and Türkan Yurdun -- Characterization of traditional dyes of the Mediterranean area by non-invasive uv-vis-nir reflectance spectroscopy / Luciana Gabriella Angelini ... [et al.] -- Technological observations on the manufacture of the late Minoan goddesses from Halasmenos East Crete, as revealed during the process of conservation / Stefania Chlouveraki ... [et al.] -- Historical conditions for preserving antiquities in the Levant / Helle Strehle -- Stabilization of walls with lime-mortar capping / Trevor Proudfoot and Kent Severson -- A preliminary assessment of mosaic reburials in Tunisia / Thomas Roby ... [et al.] -- A unique Nabataean wall painting in Petra: conservation in situ / Aysar Akrawi and Lisa Shekede -- Digital mapping of Egyptian blue: conservation implications / Giovanni Verri ... [et al.] -- Tatarlı: a fifth-century BCE painted wooden tomb in Anatolia: study, conservation, restitution and reconstruction / Stefan Demeter -- The Byzantine and post-Byzantine wall paintings of Cyprus: conservation practice in a context of continuing religious use / Marina Solomidou-Ieronymidou and Stephen Rickerby -- Creating sustainable communities in historical heritage sites: Istanbul's historic neighbourhoods / Müge Akkar Ercan -- Archival evidence for the late-nineteenth century restoration of the Colossus in Sultanhamet Square, Istanbul / Nurcan Yazici. |
| Language Note |
In English, with abstracts also in Turkish. |
| Meeting |
International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Congress (2010 : Istanbul, Turkey) |
| Subject |
Art objects -- Conservation and restoration -- Middle East -- Congresses |
| Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- Middle East -- Congresses |
| Preservation of materials -- Congresses |
| Islamic bookbinding -- Conservation and restoration -- Congresses |
| Islamic books and manuscripts -- Conservation and restoration -- Congresses |
| Conservation and restoration -- Congresses |
| Added name(s) |
Rozeik, Christina ed. |
| Roy, Ashok ed. |
| Saunders, David (David R.) ed. |
| Rose, Kristine |
