Tutankhamun’s Polychrome Wooden Shawabtis: Preliminary Investigation for Pigments and Gilding Characterization and Indirect Dating of Previous Restorations by the Combined Use of Imaging and Spectroscopic Techniques

Tutankhamun’s Polychrome Wooden Shawabtis: Preliminary Investigation for Pigments and Gilding Characterization and Indirect Dating of Previous Restorations by the Combined Use of Imaging and Spectroscopic Techniques

To the best of our knowledge, such a detailed study on polychrome wooden shawabtis of King Tutankhamun (18th Dynasty in ancient Egypt) has not been reported in the literature, so the purpose of our study is to noninvasively identify the polychrome layers and previously applied materials for a number...

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Main Authors: Abdrabou Ahmed, Abdallah Medhat, Sultan Gilan M., Mostafa Mohamed, Bayoumi Hind, Magdy Ramy, Abd El Kader Mohamed A., Hamza Nagmeldeen M., Mamdouh Dina, Elsayed Hassan M., Abbas Eltayeb, Kamal Hussein M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2022-03-01
Series:Open Archaeology
Subjects:
shawabtis
tutankhamun
multispectral imaging
orpiment
handheld xrf
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2022-0223

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