Non-destructive investigation of cultural heritage artefacts from ceramic materials. Case study- cuneiform tablets

0510456 - ÚTAM 2022 NL eng A - Abstrakt
Štefcová, P. - Polák, L. - Kohout, O. - Valach, Jaroslav - Zemánek, P.
Non-destructive investigation of cultural heritage artefacts from ceramic materials. Case study- cuneiform tablets.
Technart 2019 : conference programme. Antwerp: University of Antwerp, 2019. s. 372-372.
[Technart 2019. 07.05.2019-10.05.2019, Bruges]
Grant CEP: GA MK(CZ) DG16P02M022
Klíčová slova: non-destructive investigation * cultural heritage * cuneiform tablets
Obor OECD: Ceramics

Cultural heritage artefacts from the archaeological record made of ceramic materials (burnUunburnt clay) are an important part of nea~y all museum collections. These artefacts, however, very often lack characteristic properties, which would make it possible to link them unequivocally not only to a certain place of provenance, but also to their place of origin. Non-destructive investigation methods can help to specify the provenience of the artefacts, but only concomitant with methods applied in other fields of study, such as humanities (e.g., history, archaeology). In the framework of this case study, the results of non-destructive investigation of circa 220 cuneiform tablets are presented, which constitute about a half of the collection of the Czech orientalist Bedi'ich Hrozny, which comes from the locality of Kultepe (Turkey). Each of the cuneiform tablets was subjected to element content measurement at the surface (micro-X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy), colour identification (portable spectrocolourimeter) and detailed microscopy investigation (optical microscopy in visible and UV-Iight). The present study is the partial outcome of a multi-disciplinary project whose main goal is to devise a system for the documentation and analysis of cultural heritage artefacts with the aid of computer-supported imaging and documentation methods. A part of the project work entails creating 20130 models of cuneiform tablets, which make possible the documentation of the surface of the investigated objects or the imaging of the internal structure of the material used; the final outcome will be a database which links all the results obtained.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0327469