CLCV 2305 Lecture 9: CLCV2305 - Lecture 9
25 Jan 2017
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Pliny assignments: most have been graded, only a few left. Mortise and tenons: see slide for visual, flat pannel with joint, side piece fitted in, tomb of tutankhamun battle chest. Once pieces are fitted, drill a hole through and put in a dowel. You can soak the dowel so that it expands and holds tight. Problem: drilling a hole weakens the wood. Putting in a dowel works but it does in fact weaken strength of wood. Ancient solution was often glue: klismos chair images. They used recipes for glue to keep in place: gule made from skin, bones and tendons. There are existing egyptian recipes on papyrus. Prosthetic big toes were a thing: made of wood and leather, held together by glue, gross. Another way to do prosthetics in antiquity: cartonnage. Gypsum or lime powdered and mixed with glue, soak a sheet of linen and put on mixture of plaster and glue, repeat.
