The red ink of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Archaeometry

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 97-102

  Nir El, Y ^a   Broshi, M ^b  

^a SOREQ NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Israel)

^b Israel Museum ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

Cinnabar; First century BC; Israel; Mineral pigments; Parchment; Qumran; Red ink; X ray diffrraction; X ray fluorescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030553947     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1996.tb00763.x     Document Type: Article

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