Touch-free in situ investigation of ancient Egyptian pigments |
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Authors: | M Uda S Sassa K Taniguchi S Nomura S Yoshimura J Kondo N Iskander B Zaghloul |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Inorganic Technology, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Legions Sq. 565, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic;(2) University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | 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.
Received: 8 October 1999 / Accepted in revised form: 10 March 2000 |
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