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- Title
Identification of green pigments from fragments of Roman mural paintings of three Roman sites from north of Germania Superior.
- Authors
Debastiani, Rafaela; Simon, Rolf; Goettlicher, Joerg; Heissler, Stefan; Steininger, Ralph; Batchelor, David; Fiederle, Michael; Baumbach, Tilo
- Abstract
Roman mural green pigment painting fragments from three Roman sites in the north of the Roman province Germania Superior: Koblenz Stadtwald Remstecken (KOSR), Weißenthurm ' Am guten Mann' (WEIS) and Mendig Lungenkärchen (MELU), dating from second and third centuries AD were analyzed. The experiments were performed nondestructively using synchrotron-based scanning macro-X-ray fluorescence (SR-MA-XRF), synchrotron-based scanning micro-X-ray fluorescence (SR-μ-XRF), synchrotron-based X-ray diffraction (SR-XRD) and Raman spectroscopy. Correlation between SR-MA-XRF, SR-μ-XRF elemental map distributions and optical images of scanned areas was mainly found for the elements Ca, Fe and K. With XRF, Fe and K were identified correlated with green pigment, but in samples from two sites, Mendig Lungenkärchen and Weißenthurm ' Am guten Mann', also Cu was detected in minor concentration. The results of SR-XRD and Raman spectroscopy were limited to one sample from Weißenthurm ' Am guten Mann'. In this sample, green earth and calcium carbonate were identified by SR-XRD and, additionally, malachite by Raman spectroscopy.
- Subjects
GERMANY; ROMAN mural painting &; decoration; X-ray fluorescence; PIGMENTS; RAMAN spectroscopy; CALCIUM carbonate
- Publication
Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, 2016, Vol 122, Issue 10, p1
- ISSN
0947-8396
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00339-016-0400-5