Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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Conservation Lab., Islamic Art Museum, Ministry of Antiquities, Egypt
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Conservation Department, Faculty of Archaeology, Fayoum University, Egypt
Abstract
The Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo includes a large and rare collection of glassware, on January 24, 2014 An explosion occurred in the Cairo Security Directorate building, which is opposite the building of the Museum of Islamic Art, which damaged many of these The complaints displayed in the museum, some of them were completely destroyed, some were broken, while some survived The accident is intact. The different damage status of the presented glass complaints is due to the participation of another human damage factor being a disadvantage The museum display, as the glass niches that were most affected by the accident are displayed with a cupboard above it A large metal oven fell due to the explosion above the complaints. The intact glass complaints that survived the explosion as well as the partially damaged complaints were not In a safe position after the explosion, it had to be transported to a safe place, packed, and then transported to a safe place The museum storehouse and the affected person was transferred to the restoration laboratory, and the explosion also resulted in mixing the ancient glass fragments with others From the non-antique glass fragments due to the glass of the Fattarin, as well as the glass windows of the museum. Due to the importance and rarity of the damaged glass complaints, many of these complaints deserve study, as they aim The research is to study the rescue and restoration of one of the glass complaints damaged by the explosion by a stage Sorting and classification, the research also deals with studying the composition of the material effect, the method of manufacture and decoration. The work stages are represented in the stage of salvaging the glass niche partially damaged by the accident by transferring it to A safe place, as well as the stage of recovering the ancient glass fragments, separating them from other non-antique fragments, and then classifying them, And after that, the restoration stages [recording and documentation, examinations and analyses], the digital microscope - USB Digital Microscope, the scanning electron microscope equipped with the X-ray scattering unit - SEM, EDX Fluorescence - X-ray XRF (cleaning phase Collecting phase Completion phase) The study results in identifying the stages of salvation and restoration of the glass niche in question, as well as the identification of Impact case.
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