Investigații și tratamente de conservare aplicate textilelor liturgice arheologice de la Mănăstirea Căpriana
Investigations and conservation treatments applied to archaeological liturgical textiles from Căpriana Monastery

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this paper is the investigations and the active conservation treatments applied in the case of the liturgical textile artefacts originating from the crypt of Metropolitan Gavriil Bănulescu-Bodoni in Căpriana Monastery, for the purpose of stopping the biological attack, as a first step in the complex process of research, conservation and restoration. Saving the archaeological artefacts by applying conservation-restoration treatments is an essential activity for allowing these artefacts to constitute, for present and future generations, important historical documents, referring also to the types of materials and the techniques implied in their production. The interdisciplinary collaboration of archaeologists, historians, biologists, chemists, conservators and restorers makes possible the cultural heritage's preservation and interpretation, as the heritage item is re-valorised as a historical document [Gugeanu et al. 2017, 277]. The paper presents the results of the researches undertaken in the case of three textile objects originating from the inventory of the Metropolitan Gavriil Bănulescu-Bodoni's crypt, for which microbiological analyses have been carried out in order to determine the existence or inexistence of a biological attack. As regards the stopping of the biological attack, there followed the analysis of the effect in the case of two types of biocides and of several active conservation treatments, commonly used in the conservation of cultural heritage originating from archaeological environment.

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