Recycling - Medieval Style

 It was a rewarding day at work. Another paper was edited (that's five in all - almost a third of the entire book...) and I also made my first attempt at stitching together all the site plans, tables, photos and artefact illustrations in another.   This gave me some idea of what the finished product would look like.  At this point, the paper in question stopped looking like an essay with a bunch of scrappy illos. clipped to the back page, and started looking like a finished publication. 

The aim was to create a draft version, but it proved to be of a sufficiently high standard to be retained as the base for the final product.  Okay, so it's not perfect.  The page numbers aren't formatted properly, there's some problems with the justification, and I need to get the artefact illustrations reproduced at a consistent scale. But overall it looks pretty good.  Better than my previous attempt at a British Archaeological Report, but since I had to prepare that particular publication when I was the archaeological equivalent of an artist starving in a garret, I'm really not that surprised.  All the earlier practice I obtained while knocking my thesis into the standard BAR format has certainly paid dividends. 

Back to Amalfi now, where I'm sure the sun will be shining (needless to say, it's not here...)

I'm returning to the Chiostro del Paradiso , andI think I mentioned yesterday that this part of the church was used as a cemetery in the medieval cemetery.  However, the burial monuments which abound here aren't medieval in date, but Roman.  The information I have available on this part of the church is lacking, but I'm sure that what we're seeing here is a trend amongst the wealthy medieval citizenry of Amalfi to appropriate Roman sarcophogi for their own burials.  I've seen this practice before, further to the north in Pisa, and I really can't blame the well-heeled medieval inhabitants of Amalfi for wanting to make use of these magnificent objects.

 

 

And tomorrow I'll venture deeper into the cathedral church itself...

Recycling - Medieval Style

 It was a rewarding day at work. Another paper was edited (that's five in all - almost a third of the entire book...) and I also made my first attempt at stitching together all the site plans, tables, photos and artefact illustrations in another.   This gave me some idea of what the finished product would look like.  At this point, the paper in question stopped looking like an essay with a bunch of scrappy illos. clipped to the back page, and started looking like a finished publication. 

The aim was to create a draft version, but it proved to be of a sufficiently high standard to be retained as the base for the final product.  Okay, so it's not perfect.  The page numbers aren't formatted properly, there's some problems with the justification, and I need to get the artefact illustrations reproduced at a consistent scale. But overall it looks pretty good.  Better than my previous attempt at a British Archaeological Report, but since I had to prepare that particular publication when I was the archaeological equivalent of an artist starving in a garret, I'm really not that surprised.  All the earlier practice I obtained while knocking my thesis into the standard BAR format has certainly paid dividends. 

Back to Amalfi now, where I'm sure the sun will be shining (needless to say, it's not here...)

I'm returning to the Chiostro del Paradiso , andI think I mentioned yesterday that this part of the church was used as a cemetery in the medieval cemetery.  However, the burial monuments which abound here aren't medieval in date, but Roman.  The information I have available on this part of the church is lacking, but I'm sure that what we're seeing here is a trend amongst the wealthy medieval citizenry of Amalfi to appropriate Roman sarcophogi for their own burials.  I've seen this practice before, further to the north in Pisa, and I really can't blame the well-heeled medieval inhabitants of Amalfi for wanting to make use of these magnificent objects.

 

 

And tomorrow I'll venture deeper into the cathedral church itself...