Painting the Palace of Apries I: ancient binding media and coatings of the reliefs from the Palace of Apries, Lower Egypt

Painting the Palace of Apries I: ancient binding media and coatings of the reliefs from the Palace of Apries, Lower Egypt

Abstract This study gives an account of the organic components (binders and coatings) found in the polychromy of some fragmented architectural reliefs from the Palace of Apries in Memphis, Egypt (26th Dynasty, ca. 589-568 BCE). A column capital and five relief fragments from the collections of the N...

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Main Authors: Cecilie Brøns, Kaare Lund Rasmussen, Marta Melchiorre Di Crescenzo, Rebecca Stacey, Anna Lluveras-Tenorio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-02-01
Series:Heritage Science
Subjects:
Ancient polychromy
Organic binding media
Coatings
GC–MS
Beeswax
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40494-018-0170-9

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