18 datasets found

Presentation at the international colloquium INK-QUIRY Inks: between text and materiality, 11.12.2023, University Complutense of Madrid, Madrid (Spain). The research for this...

In this article, we present two Coptic papyri, P 11934 and P 11935 from the Berlin collection excavated in Ashmunein (ancient Hermopolis) by Otto Rubensohn in 1906. We employ a...

Presentation at the 4th International Congress of Archaeological Sciences in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, Nicosia (Cyprus), 05/2024. Recent research on the...

In the last two decades, the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschug und -prüfung (BAM), together with the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC, University of...

XRF (Bruker M6 JetStream: 50kV, 600 µA, maps with 70 to 200 µm steps and 40-50 ms per pixel) and  reflectography (DinoLite AD4113T-I2V: x40 magnification, vis,...

XRF (Bruker M6 JetStream: 50kV, 600 µA, maps with 200 µm steps and 25-30 ms per pixel) and  reflectography (DinoLite AD4113T-I2V: x40 magnification, vis, NIR...

Multispectral dataset for a fragment of a Greek papyrus scroll, PGM II (P. 5026), in the Berliner Papyrussammlung and currently on display in the Neues Museum,...

As part of cooperation with Schülerforschungszentrum Hamburg (SFZ), the Cluster UWA offers courses in which pupils in grades 8 to 10 can try to unravel...

Where light and dark meet: Multispectral Recovery of text in Manichaean Papyri in Berlin, Dublin and Warsaw Presented by Kyle Ann Huskin and Ivan Shevchuk during the Deutscher...

The most commonly used ink in antiquity was carbon-based, and the main element of carbonized papyrus is carbon, making conventional computed tomography (CT-scanning) of...

In the transition from carbon to iron-gall inks, the two documents from the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection in Berlin with shelfmarks P 13500 and P 13501 discussed in...

Multispectral imaging was performed in Berlin (November 2019) and Warsaw (December 2021) to assist preparing a first published edition of all papyrus leaves identified as...

XRF Ink analysis of selected fragments from the Herculaneum collection Hundreds of papyrus rolls, carbonized during the 79CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius, were discovered in 1754...

XRF (Elio from the University of Cologne: 40kV, 100 µA, single spots of 120s each) analysis of ink on 38 fragments of Herculaneum papyri from the collection of the...

XRF (Elio: 40kV, 80 µA, spot measurements of 120s each) analysis of inks from Ms  Pma5 / Medinet Madi Codex B (late 4th -5th century CE) from Dublin Chester Beatty...

Parchment and papyrus samples were multispectrally imaged after a beamtime at beamline P06 at PETRA III at DESY. One of the parchment samples showed a visible...

Recent research has suggested that some of the inks used in Herculaneum papyri do not consist of pure carbon. Starting from this finding, in June 2018 a preliminary campaign of...

XRF (Elio: 40kV, 80 µA, spot measurements of 120s each) and  reflectography (DinoLite: x50 magnification for spots on ink and pigment, x200 magnification for spots on...