Identification of Hidden Coins from an Egyptian site

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The application of neutron based techniques in the field of archaeology is quite recent. In particular, the development of neutron tomography and its application on cultural heritage objects, appears very attractive for archaeologists and conservation scientists, especially in the prospect of locating hidden materials and structures inside findings in an absolutely non-invasive way. During an excavation in the site of El Sheik Abada (Egypt) a number of coins completely hidden under calcareous incrustations have been recovered. We propose a three days of tomography experiment at INES station in order to identify the structure and the shape of the object under the concretion.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079189
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079189
Provenance
Creator Dr Antonella Scherillo; Dr Rosina Ponterio; Dr Francesco Aliotta; Dr Cirino Vasi; Dr Gabriele Salvato; Dr Dario Tresoldi
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-12-13T10:03:41Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-12-16T11:31:27Z