Gordion Objects Conservation: The Perils of Conservation

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Gordion

Gordion, located in central Turkey, has been occupied from the Bronze Age to modern times. King Midas and the Phrygians are undoubtedly the most famous inhabitants during the past 4,000 years but the legends surrounding the site are linked with other well known figures such as Alexander the Great who cut the Gordion Knot. Each year, an international team of archaeologists, conservators, and scientists travels to the site to continue research and preserve the material culture found there. Digital Gordion has much more information about the archaeology and the history of the excavations at the site.

Gordion Objects Conservation

Conservation Staff 2014

Angie Elliott began working at Gordion in 2003 and has been the head of objects conservation since 2006. She currently works at the Baltimore Museum of Art in Maryland.

Jessie Johnson has done conservation at Gordion since 1989, and is now the Academic Director for the University of Delaware programs at the Iraqi Institute for the Conservation of Antiquities and Heritage in Erbil, Iraq.

Cricket Harbeck is a conservator in private practice in Milwaukee Wisconsin. She was the previous head of objects conservation at Gordion.

William Shelley is a graduate student in the UCLA/Getty Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials Program in Los Angeles, California.

Gordion Objects Conservation

Friday, June 25, 2010

The Perils of Conservation

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