{"id":5642,"date":"2017-09-24T13:25:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T20:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=5642"},"modified":"2017-09-24T13:25:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T20:25:25","slug":"not-a-contemporary-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=5642","title":{"rendered":"Not a Contemporary Tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I took a look at the book, Making Books That Fly, Fold, Wrap, Hide, Pop Up, Twist, and Turn<\/a><\/i>. I bought it several years back when the nieces and nephews were young.<\/p>\n

There was a single dog-eared page with the header, A 3300-Year-Old Time Capsule<\/i>. According to the text, in the 1980s George Bass and a team of archeologists excavated the site of the Uluburun ship wreck off the coast of Turkey. The 3300 time capsule was a diptych.<\/p>\n

Curious, so I googled George Bass and Uluburun ship wreck. I found additional, more complete information on the diptych in a Johns Hopkins Magazine<\/a> article from 1997.<\/p>\n

Sifting through mud that had filled a huge storage vessel, Cemal Pulak, then one of George Bass’ grad students, found fragments of wood and pieces of ivory. He pieced them together and discovered that they formed a diptych, a sort of ancient writing tablet that consisted of two wooden leaves hinged together with ivory. The leaves would have been coated with beeswax that then could be inscribed with a stylus. No one had ever before found a diptych so old.<\/p>\n

After reading about the diptych, I then searched online for an image. This image was found on a page associated with Dr. Deborah Carlson and Jose Luis Casaban\u2019s Introduction to Nautical Archaeology<\/a> at Texas A & M University.<\/p>\n

\"Uluburun<\/p>\n

Not keen of the ivory bits, but liked the idea of scratching through a surface. It is a lovely piece. <\/p>\n

I did not continue the search to find the method used to assemble the pieces, but would have been amazing to do something similar to the staples used in some restoration.<\/p>\n

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\"Past<\/p>\n

This is an image from Past Imperfect<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Past Imperfect has images of beautifully repaired objects. I am particularly fond of the glass and ceramic pieces that have been creatively repaired with the addition of a metal component.<\/p>\n

When I made this piece as part of myTools for Rent<\/a><\/i> (bronze dagger) series, I wanted to use the piece of wood for the front panel, but it was cracked. I drilled holes and wired the panel together.<\/p>\n

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\"Tools<\/p>\n

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The majority of my work is meant to appear to be artifact, to have had a previous life. After seeing the image of the diptych it occurred to me that in the future, I just might want to \u201cage\u201d the objects that I make to near the point of destruction. Then reassemble them.<\/p>\n

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Cemal Pulak<\/a>, Associate Professor
\nFrederick R. Mayer Faculty Professor of Nautical Archaeology<\/p>\n

George F. Bass<\/a>, Professor Emeritus
\nTexas A&M University<\/p>\n

Nautical Archaeology Program<\/a><\/p>\n

Gwen Diehn, author
\nMaking Books That Fly, Fold, Wrap, Hide, Pop Up, Twist & Turn: Books for Kids to Make<\/a><\/p>\n

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Last night I took a look at the book, Making Books That Fly, Fold, Wrap, Hide, Pop Up, Twist, and Turn. I bought it several years back when the nieces and nephews were young. There was a single dog-eared page with the header, A 3300-Year-Old Time Capsule. According to the text, in the 1980s George … Continue reading Not a Contemporary Tablet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-materials","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5642"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5677,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642\/revisions\/5677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}