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Title Of Article Chaper
Restoration, conservation, and excavation at the Necropolis of Anemurium, Turkey, 1974-75
Title Of Journal Book
Journal of field archaeology
Volume
4
Issue
1
Pages
45-62
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
Since 1966, Canadian excavations, currently sponsored by the University of British Columbia, have been conducted at Anemurium (modern Eski Anamur), an ancient city of Rough Cilicia, situated on Cape Anamur, ca. 260 km. east of Antalya. The necropolis, composed of approximately 350 individual tombstructures dating from the first to the fourth century A.C., remains the most striking feature of the site. Although work in recent years has concentrated primarily on the public buildings of the city itself, the restoration of four tombs in the necropolis and the cleaning and conservation of the considerable amount of painted wall-plaster that survives in each have been undertaken. This project, begun in 1974 and continued in 1975, is still far from complete, but the removal of deposits of salts and organic incrustations from the surface of the plaster has already exposed figured scenes hitherto invisible, as well as fresh details in those previously known. -- AATA
Keywords
Archaeology, site conservation; Mural painting, restoration report ICCROM
pub_id
6118