The Ritual Significance of Colour: Specialised Pigments in a Wooden Egyptian Funerary Statuette from the New Kingdom*
A polychrome painted wooden funerary figurine has been radiocarbon dated to 1220–1050 BC and is painted with a white pigment that includes gypsum, huntite, and tridymite. This is the first discovery of the use of tridymite as a pigment in Ancient Egypt. This unusual white pigment yields an exception...
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SAGE Publishing
2009
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The journal of Egyptian archaeology
Year: 2009, Volume: 95, Issue: 1, Pages: 83-104 |
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