Seminar: sensory objects

Seminar exploring the Sensory Objects Project at the British Museum for 65 delegates.

Seminar: access all areas

Sensory Objects presented their research and their Sensory Labels for the British Museum at a seminar called Access All Areas organised by the Visitor Users Group.

Gli oggetti e la documentazione degli scavi britannici di karkemish: Una nuova analisi

Questa tesi comprende la ricerca sui materiali provenienti dagli scavi britannici, avvenuti fra il 1911 e il 1920, del sito di Karkemish (Gaziantep - Turchia). Vengono qui studiati gli oggetti (a eccezione delle sculture) databili all’Età del Bronzo e del Ferro, che sono nella quasi totalità inediti. Si sono prese in considerazione i reperti attualmente conservati al British Museum di Londra, nei Musei Archeologici di Istanbul e al Museo delle Civiltà Anatoliche di Ankara.

A Forgotten Original or an Original Copy? On MS. Douce 387 in the Bodleian Library: Collecting Early Modern Festival Books

Focusing on one manuscript, today in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, this chapter deals with the question how early modern objects became collectable items. The manuscript is categorized as MS. Douce 387 and its name indicates that it came from the collection of Francis Douce (1757–1834), who was keeper of manuscripts in the British Museum from 1799 until 1811. MS. Douce 387 is described in the catalogue of the Douce’ian collection as the “presentation copy with coloured designs by Marten de Vos and others” of the 1595 printed festival book Descriptio publicae gratulationis … in adventu … Ernesti archiducis Austriae. This festival book, printed in Antwerp’s Plantin-Moretus press, was commissioned by the magistrate of the city of Antwerp to commemorate the Joyous Entry of Archduke Ernest of Austria from June 1594; that an “archducal copy” bound in red velvet was commissioned as well and was owned by the Archduke is know as well. However, first research showed that Oxford copy cannot be this “archducal copy” or Marten de Vos’s artist’s copy even though it is the only know version with a handwritten text and hand-drawn illustrations. It rather should be examined as something totally different altogether. The main question remains why someone then commissioned a hand made version of this festival book, something unknown for other books of this genre? Why would someone between 1600 and 1800 sit down and copy texts and prints from a collectable book? Why was there such an on-going interest in early modern festival books? Could this manuscript be the only later made copy of the “archducal volume” or is it rather a forgery made for the European collectors’ market?

Na 50 Nachlass Arthur Schopenhauer - 'Schopenhauer-Archiv', 37 - Einladung Schopenhauers nach Zürich

u.a.: Besuch der Tante Frau Wüstenfeld in Frankfurt; Philosophie; Kontakt mit Jörg Herwegh und Richard Wagner; Studium der Rechtswissenschaft, Medizin und Philologie; Buddhismus; Lehrwerk der Tibetischen und Mongolischen Sprache von Isaac Jacob Schmidt in Petersburg; Tranksrit-, Zend-, Parsi- und Tibetische Manuskripte im Britischen Museum; 2. Auflage der "Welt als Wille und Vorstellung" von 1844 in der Stadtbibliothek Zürich; Metaphysik der Geschlechtsliebe; Manuskript "Geschichte der Geschlechtsliebe"; Immanuel Kant; Über die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde;

Introduction, indexes, brief descriptions of accessions and addenda and corrigenda

J. Leveen

Estela de Tuiia, arquero del rey : Traducción de una estela egipcia de la dinastía XVIII al castellano

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo la presentación, transliteración y traducción de una estela egipcia de la Dinastía XVIII creada en honor a Tuiia, un arquero y sirviente personal del rey. La estela nos ofrece una puerta de acceso a los ritos funerarios y las relaciones familiares en el contexto del universo cultural del Reino Nuevo. El documento se encuentra preservado en el Museo Británico

Estela de Tuiia, arquero del rey : Traducción de una estela egipcia de la dinastía XVIII al castellano

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo la presentación, transliteración y traducción de una estela egipcia de la Dinastía XVIII creada en honor a Tuiia, un arquero y sirviente personal del rey. La estela nos ofrece una puerta de acceso a los ritos funerarios y las relaciones familiares en el contexto del universo cultural del Reino Nuevo. El documento se encuentra preservado en el Museo Británico

Estela de Tuiia, arquero del rey : Traducción de una estela egipcia de la dinastía XVIII al castellano

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo la presentación, transliteración y traducción de una estela egipcia de la Dinastía XVIII creada en honor a Tuiia, un arquero y sirviente personal del rey. La estela nos ofrece una puerta de acceso a los ritos funerarios y las relaciones familiares en el contexto del universo cultural del Reino Nuevo. El documento se encuentra preservado en el Museo Británico

Description and illustrations of Mn deposits from the John Murray Expedition (R/V Mabahiss)

During the cruise of the" Mabahiss" from Zanzibar to Colombo at Station 133 (1° 25' 54" S. to 1° 19' 42" S. and 66° 34' 12" E. to 66° 35' 18" E.) several small rock fragments were brought up in the Monegasque net; and, since at this position there is no possibility of the material being transferred by floating Ice, these specimens are of some interest as samples of oceanic rock foundations. All the rocks have a black appearance, but in the majority this skin is of negligible thickness. Exceptionally, however, it may attain to 1/3 in. (St. 133, 8), and then the specimens are rounded. The coating is made of dark opaque manganese material. At Station 166 one or two similar specimens of angular basalt were found in the trawl consisting mainly of manganese nodules.

Chemistry on manganese nodules from the Pacific Ocean

Three manganese nodules from the Pacific Ocean have been analysed for 35 elements by using mainly spectrophotometric and spectrographic methods. Cu, Co, Ni, Zn, and Pb were found in amounts approaching 1 %, which far exceeds their average concentrations in igneous rocks. On the other hand, elements having readily hydrolysable ions, such as Ga, Sc, Zr, Y, La and Ti, are present only in amounts comparable with their concentrations in igneous rocks. Sb, Bit Be, and Cr were not detected. The hydrochloric acid-insoluble fraction of nodules is practically free of the heavy metals that are characteristic of the acid-soluble fraction; it consists principally of clay minerals, together with lesser amounts of quartz, apatite, biotite and sodium and potassium felspars.

Manganese nodules mesozoic deep-sea deposits off some Indonesian Islands

Concretions of manganese have been discovered by the geological expedition to the islands of the Timor group in 1910-1912 in triassic and jurassic deep-sea deposits, on the Island of Timor, and also well developed in similar jurassic deposits on the island of Rotti, and previously, in 1894, the author noticed them in abysmal deposits of the pre-cretaceous probably jurassic Danau formation, occurring in West and East Borneo. On the island of Rotti nodules of manganese were found in several localities in siliceous limestones, marls, siliceous and calcareous clayshales along with concretions and nodules of chert of jurassic age, full of tests of radiolaria.