The practice of writing inside an Egyptian monastic settlement: preliminary material characterisation of the inks used on Coptic manuscripts from the Monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit

The practice of writing inside an Egyptian monastic settlement: preliminary material characterisation of the inks used on Coptic manuscripts from the Monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit

Abstract Over the last few years, the Federal Institute for material research (BAM, Berlin) together with the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC, University of Hamburg) have initiated a systematic material investigation of black inks produced from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (ca...

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Main Authors: Tea Ghigo, María Jesús Albarrán Martínez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-05-01
Series:Heritage Science
Subjects:
Ink analysis
Coptic manuscripts
Mixed ink
Near-infrared reflectography
X-ray fluorescence
Papyrus
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-021-00541-0

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-021-00541-0

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