大英博物馆 世界上第一座国家博物馆

<正>世界上第一座国家博物馆大英博物馆,从不为人关注到成为英国的国家文化载体、大众的文化空间,在这一历程中如何发挥国家在文化载体、民族文化建构上的主导作用,以及实现国家与民众之间的互动,相信会给中国的文化建设以一定的启示。     

Nouvelles antiquités qatabanites du British Museum

Thirty-five inscribed fragments in Qatabanian, probably from Timna' and currently held in the British Museum, are published here.     

以瓷为媒的中西文化交流

瓷之韵——大英博物馆、英国国立维多利亚与艾伯特博物馆藏瓷器精品展展览的策划和筹备历时一年多,经过双方策展人的多次讨论,才形成最终的展览内容。大英博物馆和维多利亚与艾伯特博物馆的策展人为此挑选了148件套的精彩展品,为中国观众讲述明清时期中,     

On-line computing and radiocarbon dating at the British Museum

This paper describes the way in which the Hewlett Packard 2100A computer installed at the British Museum Research Laboratory is used by the Radiocarbon Dating Unit. A system of programmes and files has been developed to register sample count rates, calculate age estimates and monitor the performance of the counting equipment. The system was designed to be simple and convenient to use and has fulfilled our expectations.     

Anthropology and the British Museum: A conversation with John Mack

John Mack is Keeper of Ethnography at the British Museum, and until recently was also Senior Keeper. He curated The Museum of the Mind: Art and Memory in World Cultures as part of the British Museum's 250th anniversary programme. Major changes have taken place at the museum, including the return of the Museum of Mankind to the British Museum's Bloomsbury site. This site will by next year also house the Anthropology Library, one of the largest anthropology libraries in the world, the holdings of which were greatly enhanced by the gift of the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Library to the British Museum Ethnography Department Library in 1976. John Mack can be contacted at J.Mack@british-museum.ac.uk .     

Tin‐Rich Surface Decoration of Chinese Bronzes: A Case Study of the British Museum Collection

In this paper six bronze artefacts of the Eastern Zhou period to Han dynasty (770 BC ‐ 220 AD) with tin‐rich surface decoration in the British Museum collection were studied using a variety of analytical techniques. The decoration patterns include trellis patterns (菱形纹) on two swords of the Yue state, tiger's striped patterns (hu‐ban‐wen, 虎斑纹) on two swords from the Ba‐Shu region, a hexagonal star pattern (六角星纹) on a spearhead of the Wu state, and a cloud‐like pattern on a garment hook. The tin‐rich decorations on those objects were produced by deliberate tinning processes; at least three different tinning techniques were used, including the use of tin‐rich pastes for the trellis pattern of a Yue state sword and for the mottling decoration on the Ba‐Shu swords, amalgam tinning for the hexagonal star pattern on the spearhead of the Yue state, and hot tinning for the cloud‐like pattern of the garment hook. Different tinning techniques could have been applied to produce similar tin‐rich decoration patterns, and vice versa, a single tinning technique could have been used to produce different tin‐rich patterns on different objects.     

大英博物馆中国文物翻译的几点思考

在游学英国的日子里,参观了大英博物馆.对大英博物馆陈列的中国文物藏品的翻译,有一些思考和看法.