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TUE. 10/03/2000
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We started out the day with an Interview with Dana Goodburn-Brown, an archeological conservator working on the Zeugma project. She's showing us an amazing x-ray of a bronze candlestick. Many conservators use x-rays as a regular part of their work, so that prior to cleaning an artifact they can record information about it, and use that information to guide them in their conservation work. The team posed for a post-interview photo (left to right - Berta, Zeynep, Tod, Dana, and Tufan).
Drawings by Edmund Simons
One of the Zeugma artifacts recovered from the destruction layer and analyzed with the X ray machine is a Roman ceremonial helmet. These drawings were made using the partial helmet artifact as a guide. Dana showed us areas on the inside that may reveal a leather support structure to keep the helmet off the Roman soldier's head. In an example of the cooperation between GAP and the Zeugma project, the X-ray machine used by Dana is the same machine that was used by the Birecik Dam builders to test the various welds and other engineering aspects of the Dam during and after its construction.
We left Zeugma and traveled to the Sanliurfa museum where all of the artifacts
from the Bronze Age site of Tilbes are currently being studied. Tilbes was
a town of some 400, just across the Euphrates from where Zeugma grew. One
of the significant aspects of the Tilbes excavations is the uninterrupted
information that archeologists have gathered about the area that spans millenia.
This fertility goddess is one of the many finds of the Tilbes excavations. The entire site is now underwater. More artifacts from Tilbes