BMSAES Special Issue: Dedicated to papyrus conservator Bridget Leach

Special issue of BMSAES is dedicated to the recently retired papyrus conservator Bridget Leach

Issue 23: June 2015

Editorial
This special issue of BMSAES is dedicated to the recently retired papyrus conservator Bridget Leach. In tribute to a career of exceptional scope and impact, the current BMSAES issue presents recent research in Egyptology, papyrology and conservation by twelve scholars who worked closely with Bridget in the past. Given her professional focus on Egyptian and Sudanese artefacts from the British Museum, discussions of objects that she conserved, most notably but not exclusively papyri, comprise the lion’s share of this issue. This is complemented by contributions from conservation specialists in charge of renowned papyrus collections internationally.
Ilona Regulski

Contents

“Fill my hand with a papyrus sheet so that I can tell you a lot!”
A papyrus bundle for Bridget Leach
Ilona Regulski
Ensuring immutability: Islamic amulets from Kulubnarti, Sudan
Julie R. Anderson
A Coptic Jigsaw Puzzle - Conservation of a group of Papyri
Vania Assis
Restoration of carbonised papyri
Sophie-Elisabeth Breternitz
The Tomb of the Ramesseum Papyri in the Newberry Papers, The Griffith Institute Oxford
Melissa Downing and Richard B. Parkinson
Glass corrosion – the cause of the white/grey precipitation on the insides of papyrus glass frames
Jörg Graf
Reading papyrus as writing material
Myriam Krutzsch
Three Papyri: Two Frames
Cary J. Martin
Researches on papyrus mounting with Japanese paper inlay
Eve Menei
One last frame of Middle Kingdom fragments
Stephen Quirke
Preliminary findings on the roll formation of the Greenfield Papyrus
Helen Sharp
The Amduat papyrus of Panebmontu
John H. Taylor
What the Butler Saw
Patricia Usick