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"An example of “dangerous” nineteenth-century restoration work at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN)"
No full textThe National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN) owns one of the most important Egyptian collections in
Italy. It contains around 2,500 exhibits, originally belonging to different nuclei (two major groups — the Borgia and
the Picchianti collection — and some lesser groups of artifacts with various provenances) collected between the 18th and the 20th centuries. On the occasion of a complete reorganization of the collection for a new exhibition plan (inaugurated on October 7, 2016) I’ve studied the history of the collections and of their collectors through different archival documents, some unpublished materials and also the more debated ones. Interesting results have emerged mainly as regards the coffins and the mummies associated with them. During two centuries, these finds have suffered because of singular conservative operations and restorations and they have been subjected to relocation, splits and false associations to meet e exhibition criteria. Through the patient recovery of archival data, especially the unpublished catalogues of Georg Zoëga on the Borgia collection, it was possible to discover and reconstruct an interesting case of a badly-executed 19th-century restoration and identify the original decoration
"Excavating an Archive. The Borgia Collection of Egyptian Antiquities in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN)"
No full textAs a part of my PhD project on the Egyptian Collection of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), I
am undertaking a thorough study of its history through archival documents from museums and libraries in Italy and abroad. I am focusing especially on the Stefano Borgia Collection, one of two major groups of Egyptian Collections of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, sold by Camillo Borgia to Gioacchino Murat in 1814. The consultation, the study and the comparison of all the ancient documents has allowed me to identify in some cases the provenance of some finds both from 18th and 19th century excavations in Italy (Villa di Adriano in Tivoli or San Paolo Fuori le Mura) and from antiquities market, and to reconstruct both the history and the manner in which the Egyptian Collection was scattered, not only during the transfer from Velletri to Napoli but also in the Museo Borbonico (Bourbon Museum) itself due to the internal movement of finds in other collections during the 19th century
"The Borgia collection of Egyptian antiquities: cataloguing as a method"
No full textThe Borgia collection of Egyptian antiquities is one of the two main groups that constitute the Egyptian Collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN). The collection, sold by Camillo Borgia to Joachim Murat in 1815, however, is mainly linked to Cardinal Stefano Borgia (Camillo ‘s uncle) and the Danish scholar Georg Zoëga, who studied and catalogued it.
The scientific accuracy of Zoëga, motivated by the idea that we must present monuments for themselves and for their own contents and not according to individual taste and personal purposes, led him to develop a cataloguing system that made him a pioneer of a highly modern method for studying archaeological materials.
As part of a PhD project on the Egyptian collection of MANN, among whose main objectives is also a new exhibition proposal, consultation of archival documents - and especially of the original writings by Zoëga - is providing fundamental information about the nature and origin of some materials, as well as about their history in the context of European collectors in the late 18th and 19th centuries
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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