Studying pigments on painted plaster in Minoan, Roman and Early Byzantine Crete. A multi-analytical technique approach

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

Volumn 402, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1413-1432

  Westlake, Polly ^a   Siozos, Panayiotis ^b   Philippidis, Aggelos ^b   Apostolaki, Chryssa ^d   Derham, Brendan ^e   Terlixi, Agni ^f   Perdikatsis, Vasilios ^d   Jones, Richard ^e   Anglos, Demetrios ^b,c  

^a British School at Athens   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^f National Gallery of Athens   (Greece)

Author keywords

Analysis; Archaeological pigments; LIBS; Raman; SEM EDX; Wall paintings; XRD

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; LIBS; RAMAN; SEM-EDX; WALL PAINTINGS; XRD;

ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; CHARACTERIZATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PAINTING; PIGMENTS; PLASTER; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

PAINT;

EID: 84856217676     PISSN: 16182642     EISSN: 16182650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-011-5281-z     Document Type: Article

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