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Museum curator breaks 2,200-year-old glass accessory
Japan Today ^
| 25 Apr 09
| Kyodo News
Posted on 04/24/2009 4:43:36 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
OTSU —
A curator at a museum in Shiga Prefecture in western Japan accidentally dropped and broke an antique glass accessory estimated to be 2,200 years old, the museum said Friday. The item, designated by the government as an important cultural asset and believed to date back to the mid-Yayoi period, was unearthed in 1989 at the Yoshinogari Remains in Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan.
It was on loan for a special display scheduled to begin Saturday at the Shiga Prefectural Azuchi Castle Archaeological Museum. ‘‘It’s a great pity,’’ said Toshihiro Kawasaki, head of the Saga prefectural board of education in charge of the management of the remains. ‘‘The accessory, with its bright light blue color, is one of the items representing the Yoshinogari Remains. We hope it will be repaired and be able to be put on display as soon as possible.’’ The accessory was made of 46 cylinder-shaped pieces of sky blue glass threaded together. The curator dropped it from a height of about 70 centimeters onto a carpeted floor, and more than 10 of the pieces of glass broke, the museum said.
TOPICS: Japan; Miscellaneous
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Oops. That probably isn't a resume-enhancer for museum curators.
To: GATOR NAVY
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posted on
04/24/2009 4:44:47 PM PDT
by
Maceman
To: GATOR NAVY
I can see myself doing that. :^)
To: GATOR NAVY
That has got to be every curator’s worst nightmare.
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posted on
04/24/2009 4:45:46 PM PDT
by
ChocChipCookie
(Earth: It's not your mother, it's just a big rock.)
To: GATOR NAVY
Keep that curator away from swords.
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posted on
04/24/2009 4:45:49 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(Worse than we could have imagined.)
To: mkmensinger
Japan?
Next report, museum curator commits hairy cairy.
To: GATOR NAVY
2,200 years old? Thank goodness it wasn’t brand new.
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posted on
04/24/2009 4:47:13 PM PDT
by
Lawgvr1955
(You can never have too much cowbell !!)
To: Maceman
A boost for the fellow who glues it back together to look original again.
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posted on
04/24/2009 4:47:28 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
To: luvbach1
He might be using one right now.
9
posted on
04/24/2009 4:47:43 PM PDT
by
CaptRon
(Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: GATOR NAVY
Bull in a Japanese museum.
I’m so sorry for that guy.
10
posted on
04/24/2009 4:48:10 PM PDT
by
bannie
To: GATOR NAVY
46 glass cyliners? Love to see it.
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posted on
04/24/2009 4:48:41 PM PDT
by
CaptRon
(Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: luvbach1
Or give him 10 right now. Depending on your point of view.
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posted on
04/24/2009 4:48:47 PM PDT
by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: CaptRon
Wonder if they were straight or bent?
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posted on
04/24/2009 4:49:57 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
To: GATOR NAVY
I'd hate to be the curator at the museum 2,200 years from now who breaks the compact-flourescent lightbulb relic that is on display there.
-PJ
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posted on
04/24/2009 4:51:09 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(This just in... Voting Republican is a Terrorist act!)
To: GATOR NAVY
dropped and broke an antique glass accessory estimated to be 2,200 years old Well hell Sarge, the manual says we got to replace those every five years anyway.
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posted on
04/24/2009 4:53:04 PM PDT
by
humblegunner
(Where my PIE at, fool?)
To: GATOR NAVY
...
so, how long did you work at that egg farm before you became a curator?
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posted on
04/24/2009 4:54:12 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Lawgvr1955
To: bannie
Bull in a Japanese museum.
Your giving
Bulls a bad name.
18
posted on
04/24/2009 4:55:15 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the occupation media.)
To: GATOR NAVY
He broke it, he bought it!
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posted on
04/24/2009 4:57:26 PM PDT
by
silverleaf
(We live in interesting times: now the entire IRS works for a tax evader)
To: GATOR NAVY
I was going to post a picture of it but didn’t want to get in trouble.
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posted on
04/24/2009 4:59:16 PM PDT
by
steveo
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