CLEANING TECHNOLOGY OF ALABASTER STONE (USING BAPTISMAL FONT FROM THE DORMITION CHURCH IN LVIV AS AN EXAMPLE)
The alabaster font from the Dormition Church in Lviv was sent to the
restoration in 2019. For a long time it served as a flowerbed, it was whitewashed several times,
split into two parts and fastened with a metal wire. The article describes the conservation state
of the object, presents the results of petrographic and thermal analysis of alabaster of the font
basin. The study found that the main problem of cleaning is the removal of carbonized lime
incrustation. The experimental studies on the effect on alabaster of various means of cleaning