First chemical evidence of royal purple as a material used for funeral treatment discovered in a Gallo-Roman burial (Naintré, France, third century AD)

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

Volumn 401, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1739-1748

  Devièse, Thibaut ^a,b,f   Ribechini, Erika ^a   Baraldi, Pietro ^c   Farago Szekeres, Bernard ^d   Duday, Henri ^e   Regert, Martine ^b,g   Colombini, Maria Perla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE ET DE RESTAURATION DES MUSÉES DE FRANCE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^d INRAP   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^f BRITISH MUSEUM   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Direct exposure mass spectrometry; Funeral treatment; HPLC; Purple; Raman spectroscopy; Roman burial

Indexed keywords

HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

ANALYTICAL METHODOLOGY; CHEMICAL EVIDENCES; FUNERAL TREATMENT; HPLC; ORGANIC RESIDUES; PURPLE; ROMAN BURIAL; TEXTILE DYES;

MASS SPECTROMETRY;

TYRIA;

EID: 80255124861     PISSN: 16182642     EISSN: 16182650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-011-5217-7     Document Type: Article

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