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Gregory Bearman, Mark S. Anderson & Kenneth Aitchison. 2011. New Imaging Methods to Improve Text Legibility of Ostraca – PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 8(2) (2011)
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Online: New Imaging Methods to Improve Text Legibility of Ostraca
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Gregory Bearman, Mark S. Anderson & Kenneth Aitchison. 2011. New Imaging Methods to Improve Text Legibility of Ostraca – PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 8(2) (2011)
Abstract
We report on experiments on three new methods to improve text contrast for carbon ink ostraca. These are (1) Raman imaging, (2) Micro-focus XRF scanning and (3) exogenous contrast agents either to enhance the X-ray signal or create an optical fluorescence signal. We tested all three methods with modern ‘stunt’ ostraca, made using a variety of carbon-based inks. In each imaging modality, the inks are clearly differentiated from the clay background. The exogenous contrast enhancement, in particular, suggests a variety of approaches to improving text legibility.
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Past Horizons With photo. A cache of demotic ostraca has been discovered at the Greco-Roman site of Soknopaiou Nesos/Dime es-Seba, located two kilometres north of Qarun Lake in the Wadi Fayoum, Egypt. The cache was uncovered during an excavation carried...
- Online Paper: Archaeoastronomy And Archaeo-topography As Tools In The Search For A Missing Egyptian Pyramid
www.palarch.nl Available online free of charge as a PDF. Giulio Magli. 2010 Archaeoastronomy and Archaeo-Topography as Tools in the Search for a Missing Egyptian Pyramid PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 7(5) (2010) Abstract Among...
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PalArch "Eveline Zahradnik. 2009. Zur Darstellung eines Königs mit krankhaftem Beinbefund auf dem Relief 'Spaziergang im Garten' Spectral Imaging of Ostraca. – PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 6(8) (2009)" was written...
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http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/basp/ The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists is now available online: "The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists has been the official journal of the American Society of Papyrologists since the publication...