The excavations at the Windover Bog site (8BR246) in 1986 and 1987 yielded 87 specimens of technologically sophisticated textiles and other perishables from 37 human burials. The assemblage currently represents the oldest known textiles from this hemisphere. Unfortunately, microscopic examination has demonstrated that substantial cellular degradation has occurred in these artifacts. In fact, these items are but the dimmest reflections or more accurately skeletons of their former predepositional states. Although traditional consolidants ensured a minimum of warpage and shrinkage with subsequent freeze drying, they produced an undesirable surficial film. Additionally, the resultant products were extremely brittle and required further treatment. To this end, several leading authorities suggested the testing of Parylene gas phase polymer technology on the Windover specimens. The senior author introduced Parylene gas phase technology to the conservation field in 1984. Since that time, numerous evaluation programs have been undertaken at major institutions. Important artifacts as well as extremely ancient natural history materials have been successfully treated utilizing Parylene technology [1]. This paper specifically addresses the application of Parylene gas phase polymer technology to the consolidation and preservation of the unique textile materials recovered from the Windover site. Major areas of discussion are: historical background, early conservation efforts, evaluation and decision to use Parylene technology, properties of the Parylene family of polymers, the method of deposition and treatment, and final conclusions on the consolidation of the treated textiles.
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Anna Sadurska: Les Portraits romains dans les collections polonaises (Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani, Pologne vol i.) Pp. 63; 48 plates. Warsaw: Éditions Scientifiques de Pologne, 1972. - Volume 26 Issue 1
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Hans Ulrich Instinsky: Der Spatrömische Silberschatzfund von Kaiseraugust. (Akad. Mainz, Abh. d. Geistes- u. Sozial wissenschaftlichen Klasse, 1971. 5.) Pp. 18; 3 plates. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1971. Paper, DM. 6.80. - Volume 25 Issue 1
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Lepcis and Cyrene in Roman times were two very different cities, each typical of the province to which it belonged—Lepcis to Africa Proconsularis, one of the most successfully ‘Romanized’ provinces of the Roman Empire, and Cyrene to the province of Crete and Cyrene which always remained part of the Greek-speaking world and retained much of its Greek character and institutions. Architecturally, Lepcis today is one of the most impressively Roman cities, with its splendid public buildings, which include the grand Severan Forum and Basilica and the massive Hadrianic Thermae, and its spacious streets. Cyrene, in contrast, preserves an image that is severely Greek, dominated by austere Doric architecture. Even in quite late Roman times there seems to have been a determined effort to preserve the old forms, so that the Capitolium, for example, on the edge of the old Agora, was re-built under Antoninus Pius as a Greek building.On the occasion of the Libya exhibition, I have tried to find a theme to bring together these two very diverse provinces that both form part of the modern Libyan Arab Republic. The choice of Septimius Severus, emperor from A.D. 193–211, needs some explanation. He was, of course, born at Lepcis probably in 146; he was there again as legatus of his uncle, the Proconsul of Africa; he may have gone there as Emperor in A.D. 203 during a grand tour of Africa and personally planned the great building programme which transformed his home-city. There is, on the other hand, no record of his ever having been at Cyrene, though he might have gone there as a boy. It is generally believed, indeed, that his first experience of the Greek-speaking empire was when he went to Syria to serve under Pertinax in A.D. 180. He does, however, provide a suitable link in that he was commemorated by sculptured monuments in both places, and the attitudes of mind which these monuments reflect, help us, I think to understand the underlying unity as well as the diversity of the two provinces.
Contributi dell'Istituto di Archeologia. (Pubb. dell'Univ. Catt. del Sacro Cuore, Scienze Storiche 11.) Vol. 1: pp. 214; 54 plates. Vol. 2: pp. 160; 68 plates. Milan: Società Editrice Vita e Pensiero, 1967, 1969. Paper. - Volume 22 Issue 1
his tenth prytany has only 33 days. He understandably makes little of this and attributes it merely to a desire to equate the conciliar and archon years in future. But if he thinks it happened once, I doubt if he can legitimately argue that it never happened again. When we leave the Choiseul Marble, we get on to more trodden ground, though there are important new discussions of the evidence for the Athenian new year beginning at the first new moon after the solstice and the simple alternation of full and hollow months. I am not really convinced that Pritchett is right on either, but the material is useful. In particular, I remain quite unconvinced that the Athenians determined their calendar by regular lunar observation; Pritchett rightly notes the problem raised by the holding of the Chalkeia on Pyanepsion hn) KO.1 vea. On the other hand, I am fairly firmly on Pritchett's side, when he holds that our understanding is only encumbered by the rags which still remain of the theory that astronomical calendars had much influence on the real Athenian calendar. Even so, I think that Meritt's recent attempts to test the possibility that Kara deov = /card Merwva have been well worth trying and point to some real difficulties about certain Hellenistic years of which Pritchett makes light. I agree with those specific criticisms ot Meritt's current archon-list which Pritchett makes here. I would go further than Pritchett in thinking we are not yet ready to correlate the coins and the calendar, and distrust even the use Pritchett makes of Miss Thompson's results in the argument on p. 64 (cf. C.R. xii (1962), 291).
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Adolf Greifenhagen: Das Vesta-relief aus Wilton House. (121/122 Winckelmannsprogramm der Archäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin.) Pp. 375; 3 plates, 16 figs. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1967. Paper, DM. 25. - Volume 21 Issue 2
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G. Piccottini: Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani: Österreich. Band ii, fasc. I: Die Rundskulturen des Stadtgebietes von Virunum. 55 plates & 2 textfigures. Vienna: Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., 1968. Paper, ö.S. 164. - Volume 20 Issue 2
