A Roman Period palette: Composition of pigments from King Herod's palaces in Jericho and Massada, Israel

Israel Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 75-85

  Porat, Naomi ^a   Ilani, Shimon ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

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