A Laser Cleansing of the Caryatids at the Acropolis Museum

Canon PowerShot S100

ƒ/2

5.2 mm

1/30

320

They were quite insistent that no photos be taken of this procedure, so I had to persist in sneaking a shot.

The booth shields visitors from stray laser beams used to cleanse the statures from atmospheric pollutants, a painstaking manual process… the modern rendition of the olive oil scrub of Odysseus.

5 responses to “A Laser Cleansing of the Caryatids at the Acropolis Museum”

jurvetson

Sep 16, 2013 at 5:14 am

video of the process

Reply
seatonsnet

Sep 26, 2013 at 11:05 am

For Greeks this all must be sort of puzzling, they have enough money for cleaning ancient caryatids, but contemporary Athenians are eating out of garbage cans only a few blocks away.

Reply
scleroplex

Oct 4, 2013 at 4:08 pm

am thrilled you persisted!

Reply
δημητριος

Oct 13, 2013 at 11:44 am

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/48331433@N05] And what is the meaning of your comment????????????

Reply
jgury

Nov 4, 2013 at 12:16 pm

You needed to say the right thing to them…
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/jgury/10668866834/]

Whoever did the display placement levelling and the photo really knew what they were doing.

Reply

A Laser Cleansing of the Caryatids at the Acropolis Museum

5 responses to “A Laser Cleansing of the Caryatids at the Acropolis Museum”

Leave a Reply to jgury Cancel reply