NON – DESTRUCTIVE XRF ANALYSIS OF METALLIC OBJECTS FROM BENAKI MUSEUM OF ISLAMIC ART
- 1. Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, Directorate of Conservation of Ancient and Modern Monuments, Achilleion Museum, Corfu, Greece
- 2. Department of Industrial Design and Production Engineering, School of Engineering, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece
- 3. Institute of Materials Science "Demokritos" National Center for Scientific Research, Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece and Department of Archaeology, University of Leiden, Einsteinweg 2, 2333 CC, The Netherlands
Description
Islamic art is present around the world, Benaki Museum, Museum of Islamic Art (Athens, Greece) has a col-lection of various objects, a part of this collection was studied through portable XRF analysis. The objects that were studied are sixteen (16) metallic Islamic artifacts; three candlesticks, six basins, a cup, an ewer, two com-passes, two pen boxes and an incense burner. These artifacts are dated in the 13th to 15th century, with origin from Iran, Syria, Turkey and Egypt, and are of great aesthetic value and the unique metalworking techniques revealed by their shapes, decorations and complex manufacturing alloys. Portable X-ray fluorescence analysis provided information about the artifacts’ construction materials, which were mainly copper, zinc, iron, lead, tin and nickel.
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