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Sunday, June 17, 2007

 

Violaine working on the temple plan.

Violaine is continuing to plan the temple itself, and each day she is able to better record features, because we can move blocks that might obscure pavement or wall block borders. She and Betsy are particularly interested in seeing the entire temple recorded as is, because so much restoration is now taking place. It is imperative that any work done to “improve” the integrity of the building is done properly and is faithful as much as is possible.

Violaine working on the temple plan.

 


 

Working at Beit Canada.
At the house work is focusing today on drawing painted pottery sherds. This is actually difficult, because the patterns are frequently faded and thus difficult to ascertain. Dorothy is working out the painting on her sherd and carefully drawing it as she sees it. Jonathan studies a lovely “blue painted” sherd with a lotus bouquet on it before beginning to draw.
Dorothy working at Beit Canada.
Dorothy studies a pottery sherd.

 


 

Jim and Emily photographing pottery.
Emily photographing pottery.
Photographing pottery at Beit Canada.
Jim and Emily continue to take truly great pottery photographs at the stations Jay has set up in Beit Canada. The work of laying out the sherds to form a composition must precede doing the camera and light settings. So each photo results in a fine definition of the material.
Pottery sherds.

 


 

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