The Move, Part II: From Chris's office to the cabinets

Derek uses his laptop to catalog the location of the items in the drawers in an Excel spreadsheet.

Chris, David, Peter, and Marie open a new box and begin looking through its contents.

Marie stores artifacts in one of the drawers while Peter documents their movement with pencil and paper.

The last step was to move the rest of the Study Collection artifacts that were located in boxes in Chris’s office into the cabinets. These boxes contained a variety of objects ranging from Early Bronze Age vases, to small Egyptian Shabti figures and calcite kohl jars, as well as some 3D model replicas from past projects. Most of the artifacts were wrapped in plastic bags containing lists of object numbers (with some bags not having the same ratio of object numbers to actual objects within the bag), so the interns were tasked to identify the exact object number for each object within each bag.

Once the metadata of the objects were cataloged, the smaller artifacts were organized within the drawers (based on size, material, original function, and culture of origin), while large and relevant artifacts were placed in the remaining spaces on the shelves. Check out the layout of the artifacts on Neatline to learn more!