Conservation and Presentation

WORK IN PROGRESS

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Wall conservation

During the 2007 season we made significant progress in the documentation of our wall conservation efforts, which is a mainstay of our overall project. Two Italian graduate students, Beatrice Landini and Marta Lorenzon, took over the multiple tasks involved, to wit:

1. continuing the photographic and descriptive monitoring of the Palace wall, and harmonizing the earlier stages of the attendant documentation;
2. overseeing the repairs and maintenance of the Palace walls and of their protective shelters, including the implementation of a new type of roofing for the same shelters;
3. developing strategies for the protection of sections;
4. starting a monitoring system for the conservation of the stone architecture, includ-ing the repair and maintenance of the portions already exposed;
5. completing the documentation of the test walls constructed in 2004 as part of spe-cial study for the Getty Conservation Institute.

A full separate report is in preparation for these various activities.

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The conservation lab

Beatrice Angeli, of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, joined us in the field to complete the conservation work on a group of metal objects from previous seasons which we were then able to turn over to the Der ez-Zor Museum.

Her contribution was also invaluable for the stabilization and conservation of the frit necklace describe above (5.1).