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XRF INK ANALYSIS OF SOME HERCULANEUM PAPYRI
Bonnerot, Olivier;
Del Mastro, Gianluca;
Hammerstaedt, Jürgen;
Mocella, Vito;
Rabin, Ira
Recent research has suggested that some of the inks used in Herculaneum papyri do not consist of pure carbon. Starting from this finding, in June 2018 a preliminary campaign of analysis by means of X-Ray fluorescence (XRF) of external portions removed mechanically from their original rolls in the eighteenth century (the so-called scorze) took place at the Biblioteca Nazionale at Naples. Also in this case, the aim of the survey was to investigate the ink composition in order to detect possible traces of metal. This article sums up the results of this survey.
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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- Publication date:
- September 10, 2020
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- Keyword(s):
- CSMC UWA Manuscript Written Artefacts Artefact Profiling BAM Univeristät zu Köln Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli RFA11 Z02 X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Bruker XGLab ELIO Papyrus Carbon Ink Metals Ink Analysis Herculaneum Latin Greek Scorze Philodemus
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- Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik: 216 pp. 50-52.
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