A papyrus after its makeover
The Bodmer Foundation has an excerpt from the 3000 year old “Book of the Dead” which has just been restored.
The restorer Florence Darbre indicates on the papyrus the weak points that she consolidated with David Cussonneau, who financed the preservation work.
LAURENT GUIRAUD
“In another country, you would be called a living treasure,” jokes Jacques Berchtold, introducing Florence Darbre, the restorer who has just given the director of the Bodmer Foundation the jewel she has rejuvenated. This Egyptian papyrus from Thebes and dating from 1000 BC. J.-C. spent a year and a half in his studio in Nyon. After ages spent preserving the cream of the works on paper in the Bodmer collection, Florence Darbre retired with vacation homework: bringing this ill-fated PB 101 papyrus back to life.