BASA020 - RESTORATIONS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS

courses
ID:
BASA020
Duration (hours):
24
CFU:
3
SSD:
Indefinito/Interdisciplinare
Located in:
CHIETI
Url:
BENI ARCHEOLOGICI E STORICO-ARTISTICI/CORSO GENERICO Year: 2
CULTURAL HERITAGE: ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF ART/CORSO GENERICO Year: 1
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Overview

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (01/03/2026 - 31/05/2026)

Syllabus

Course Objectives


The frequency of the laboratory should lead the student to know the fundamental issues and procedures related to conservation and restoration, necessary for the understanding and enhancement of an archaeological and/or artistic historical heritage.​​​​​​​

Course Prerequisites


The workshop is intended for students of the LM Course in Archaeological and Historical and Artistic Heritage. It is preferable, but not indispensable, to have participated in archaeological excavations or similar laboratory activities (ceramics, photography, etc.)

Teaching Methods


Two introductory theoretical lessons, followed by ex cathedra lessons carried out simultaneously with laboratory practice, to consolidate its effectiveness. The workshop is divided into 24 hours of lectures and 51 hours of individual exercises on site.All phases are followed and supported by the presence of the teacher and collaborators in the teaching.The library of the Department is a useful support for specific documentation and for the analysis of the contexts of origin of the finds, on the dating, etc...The equipment included in the Archaeological Laboratory of the Department (DiSPuTer), such as screen and overhead projector, computer and other computer media.The laboratory is also equipped with professional equipment for restoration, which can guarantee interventions and procedures in compliance with the provisions of the ministerial bodies responsible for the protection of cultural heritage.

Assessment Methods


The allocation of credits takes place at 70% of the expected laboratory hours. The final suitability is also obtained with the evaluation of the result of the restoration and conservation of an archaeological find, documented by the compilation of a graphic and photographic card, the subject of an oral examination. A copy of the form is required for the Course archive.

Texts


Bandini G.,Le classi ceramiche: problematiche di conservazione, Le classi ceramiche. Situazione degli studi, Bari 2009
Barnabè P., Carta del Restauro per I beni culturali, www.pietrobarnabe.it
Battaglia D.,Caratterizzazione e conservazione di reperti ceramici archeologici, AA. 2013-2014
Fabbri B., Ravanelli Guidotti C., Il Restauro della Ceramica, Firenze 2004
Calanca R., Brevi note sui metodi di restauro. (dispense universitarie).
Cavari F.,Conservazione e restauro della ceramica archeologica, Introduzione allo studio della ceramica in archeologia, Siena 2007
Ceci M., Santangeli Valenzani R, La ceramica nello scavo archeologico. Analisi, quantificazione e interpretazione, Roma 2016
Le Carte del Restauro, (www.unirc.it)
DOCUMENTO UNINORMAL 11182-Lessico degrado; DOCUMENTO UNINORMAL 10739-Tecnologia ceramica.
Michelucci M., Sorella F., Lacuna e integrazione nelle ceramiche archeologiche, in OPD Restauro, 18, 2006
Vitti P., Il minimo intervento nel restauro archeologico:appunti di pratica/etica professionale, ASAteneLXXXVII, III,9, 2009.

Contents


-The history of restoration. Legislation: The Restoration Papers-Materials and techniques for the processing/production of archaeological finds.
-Causes and processes of alteration and degradation.
-Method of recovery of archaeological finds: microexcavation in the laboratory.
-Conservation and restoration theory and methods.-Analysis of the material composition and methods of diagnosis of the deterioration of archaeological finds.
-Restoration of archaeological finds, preceded by non-invasive analysis (optical and digital microscopy), photographic documentation and subsequent graphic documentation (restoration file).

Course Language


Italian Language

Degrees

Degrees (2)

BENI ARCHEOLOGICI E STORICO-ARTISTICI 
Master’s Degree
2 years
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People

People

CALANCA ROSSELLA
Collaboratori
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