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Investigation , Preservation and Restoration Processes of an Ancient Egyptian Wooden Offering Table
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Abdallah, Medhat Kamal, Hussein M. Abd-Rabou, Ahmed A. |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | The wooden offering table studied here dates back to the Middle Kingdom (2040 – 1782 B.C), and consists of wood and yellow pigment. This study aims to use analytical techniques to identify the components of the table and to understand its deterioration aspects. Visual assessment, isolation and identification of fungi, ultraviolet spectroscopy scanning, optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy were used to assess wood deterioration and degradation, to identify wood species, pigments, and previous preservation and restoration materials. The results revealed that the wood species is cypress (Cupressus sempervirens L.), used for the body of the offering table, while the dowels are made of hardwood; the pigment used on the table is yellow ochre and the previous preservation and restoration materials are a mixture of beeswax and rosin. The offering table is severely damaged by old fungi infection, Aspergillus sp., Cladosporium sp. being were the most dominant fungi found on the offering table. The offering table was previously restored and reassembled by using new dowels made of softwood and extensively amount of a mixture of beeswax and rosin, especially in the four connecting points between the four legs and the four |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.ijcs.uaic.ro/public/IJCS-16-55_Abdallah.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
