Damage assessment and preservation of an Egyptian silver vase (300-200 BC)

Archaeometry

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 123-137

  Wanhill, R J H ^a   Steijaart, J P H M ^a   Leenheer, R ^b   Koens, J F W ^b  

^a NATIONAL AEROSPACE LABORATORY NLR   (Netherlands)

^b Allard Pierson Museum   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Corrosion; Egypt; Embrittlement; Energy dispersive X ray fluorescence; Ptolemaic; Scanning electron microscopy; Silver; Vase; X radiography

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032345078     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1998.tb00828.x     Document Type: Article

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