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X-Ray Fluorescence Data from Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, selection from Herculaneum papyri

Bonnerot, Olivier

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Bonnerot, Olivier
Researcher(s)
Rabin, Ira; Del Mastro, Gianluca; Hammerstaedt, Jürgen; Mocella, Vito

XRF (Elio from the University of Cologne: 40kV, 100 µA, single spots of 120s each) analysis of ink on 38 fragments of Herculaneum papyri from the collection of the Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli in collaboration with the University of Cologne.

  1. report_Naples.docx - detailed reports on the measurements with summary of results
  2. Results_Naples.xslx - XRF raw data and processing
  3. XRF_Herculaneum.zip - Complete set of XRF data files

The research for this project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) within the Cluster of Excellence «Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures». The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg in collaboration with the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), and the Universität zu Köln.
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