The appointee will carry out a project with two overlapping objectives: research on the polychrome color schema of Assyrian stone reliefs and developing educational materials about polychromy and pigment analysis for use by the Yale Peabody Museum in gallery interpretation and programming. The Yale Peabody Museum is currently undergoing a transformative renovation, which includes the creation of new spaces dedicated to ancient Mesopotamia. The gallery will feature two relief fragments from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II. Long deprived of their original painted surfaces, the reliefs will have that history of color restored through dynamic light projection to simulate how the reliefs would have appeared in situ. To anchor the light projection design in the materiality of the stone reliefs as much as possible, the appointee will work with IPCH scientists to locate and characterize any remaining microscopic paint residues using a combination of scientific imaging and micro-analysis techniques. They will also collaborate with colleagues at the Yale Babylonian Collection at the Yale Peabody Museum to contextualize the scientific findings with respect to similar research available in other collections and historic sources. The outcome of the project will include light projection color schema in addition to other visual and textual elements for use in gallery and digital platforms. A key aspect of the project involves working with the Peabody Museum’s EVOLUTIONS program (Evoking Learning and Understanding through Investigations of the Natural Sciences, or EVO for short), which is a free youth program for New Haven and West Haven high school students.
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