The constituents of the ink from a Qumran inkwell: New prospects for provenancing the ink on the Dead Sea Scrolls

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2956-2968

  Rasmussen, Kaare Lund ^a   Tenorio, Anna Lluveras ^b   Bonaduce, Ilaria ^b   Colombini, Maria Perla ^b   Birolo, Leila ^c   Galano, Eugenio ^c   Amoresano, Angela ^c   Doudna, Greg ^d   Bond, Andrew D ^a   Palleschi, Vincenzo ^b,e   Lorenzetti, Giulia ^e,f   Legnaioli, Stefano ^e   van der Plicht, Johannes ^g,h   Gunneweg, Jan ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d Columbia College ^*  (United States)

^e CNR   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^g Center for Isotope Research   (Netherlands)

^h LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

FT IR; GC MS; ICP MS; Ink; LIBS; Proteomic analyses; PXRD; Qumran; Radiocarbon dating; Raman

Indexed keywords

FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; INORGANIC MATTER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINERAL; ORGANIC MATTER; PROTEOMICS; PROVENANCE; RADIOCARBON DATING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

DEAD SEA; ISRAEL;

EID: 84862127118     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2012.04.041     Document Type: Article

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