2004 CONSERVATION Gretchen Meyers, Rollins University, Director of Materials Ann Steiner, Franklin and Marshall College, Director of Research Chris White, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Head Conservator Esther H. Chao, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Conservator Bridget Marx, Southern Methodist University, Senior Curator Sue Bird, Illustrator Lilly Albritton, SMU, Lab Assistant Week 4 - Gretchen Meyers: Lilly Albritton and Chris White cleaning bucchero finds from PC 20. This week in the lab we have begun several new projects, continued others and completed some tasks begun earlier in the season. We are very pleased that through the monumental efforts of Lilly Albritton we finished our reorganization of catalogued material from Podere Funghi and Poggio Colla, down to the newly adhered labels on the boxes! We have also made much headway in our survey of tile from earlier excavation years thanks to the attention of Nicole Berastequi, Andrew McClellan and Liz Bair. Esther Chao and Chris White lifting a bucchero vessel spout from Trench PC 20. The task of cleaning, organizing and cataloguing bucchero has occupied much of our time. With the wonderful addition of Esther Chao to the conservation team, our conservators have begun to tame the mountain of bucchero currently being excavated in PC 20. Esther was welcomed to the site on her first day by several bucchero vessels in PC 20, which she and Chris White carefully lifted on a visit to the field. We have also had several students working in the lab, dry brushing and cleaning bucchero sherds. Already keen eyes have been able to spot joins on our bucchero table and we look forward to examining a wide variety of vessel shapes and patterns as the season progresses. Conservator Esther Chao cleaning bucchero from Trench PC 20. Franklin and Marshall students continue to study the fine pottery from Podere Funghi. They are working on creating typologies based on clay, color, texture and vessel shape and size. The students' goal for the upcoming week will be to gain a baseline understanding of the pottery from the midden so that we can begin to make comparisons to the fine locally made pottery from elsewhere on the site, as well as to the black glaze fineware shapes so familiar to their professor and supervisor, Ann Steiner. Ann Steiner, Lilly Albritton, and Chris White in the conservation lab. To date nearly 275 finds have been received in the lab and I have examined and catalogued nearly 60 of them. Others are still awaiting conservation and cleaning. In the meantime, through the cooperative efforts of the field staff and the lab staff, our knowledge of both sites-Podere Funghi and Poggio Colla-continues to grow. Gretchen Meyers cataloguing finds in the magazzino.   Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 - Final Report   Director, Gregory Warden gwarden@mail.smu.edu Director, Michael Thomas michael.thomas@tufts.edu While the team is in Italy during the summer field season, send e-mail to: mvap3@dada.it To email an individual on the team, put that person's name in the subject heading. Excavation house phone: 055-844-9834, or, when calling from the US: 011-39-55-844-9834. Introduction | 2004 Field Season | Poggio Colla Field School | What’s New | Staff | Students Site History | Directors' Diaries | Student Diaries | Excavation Friends | Facilities | Conservation | Surveys Robert Belanger | Katherine Blanchard | Josh Moran | Caitlin Vacanti | Ivo van der Graaff | Robert Vander Poppen QuickTime VR | Site Set-Up | Dig Daily Life | Excavation Process | Field Manual | Lectures | Season's End Archives | Finds | Research Projects | Publications | Bibliography | Mugello Area | Home