TY - JOUR
T1 - Touch-free in situ investigation of ancient Egyptian pigments
AU - Uda, M.
AU - Sassa, S.
AU - Taniguchi, K.
AU - Nomura, S.
AU - Yoshimura, S.
AU - Kondo, J.
AU - Iskander, N.
AU - Zaghloul, B.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2007 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Some of the pigments painted on the Funerary Stele of Amenemhat (ca. 2000 B.C.) exhibited at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo and on the walls of the Tomb of Userhat (ca. 1450 B.C.), a rock-cut tomb in Thebes, Egypt, were investigated in situ using both a convenient home-made hand-held type of X- ray diffractometer and a commercial X-ray fluorescence spectrometer in a complementary way under touch-free conditions. CaCO3 · 3MgCO3 (huntite) was found in the white-painted parts of these two ancient monuments. An arsenic (As)-bearing phase was detected in the yellow-painted parts of the latter monument. The occurrence of huntite in Egypt has not been reported previously.
AB - Some of the pigments painted on the Funerary Stele of Amenemhat (ca. 2000 B.C.) exhibited at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo and on the walls of the Tomb of Userhat (ca. 1450 B.C.), a rock-cut tomb in Thebes, Egypt, were investigated in situ using both a convenient home-made hand-held type of X- ray diffractometer and a commercial X-ray fluorescence spectrometer in a complementary way under touch-free conditions. CaCO3 · 3MgCO3 (huntite) was found in the white-painted parts of these two ancient monuments. An arsenic (As)-bearing phase was detected in the yellow-painted parts of the latter monument. The occurrence of huntite in Egypt has not been reported previously.
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U2 - 10.1007/s001140050716
DO - 10.1007/s001140050716
M3 - Article
C2 - 10929288
AN - SCOPUS:0033922093
SN - 0028-1042
VL - 87
SP - 260
EP - 263
JO - Die Naturwissenschaften
JF - Die Naturwissenschaften
IS - 6
ER -