• Ancient sources describe the recipes and cultural values of the wax finish of the statues, known as ganosis. • Recipes are described by Pliny and Vitruvius, but never archeologically attested. • Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry analyses are performed on one Roman statue from Dougga. • The use of wax finish, following the ancient recipes, and the potential of the TOF-SIMS are demonstrated for the first time in the study of ancient polychromy of statues.
Wax finishing in Roman polychrome statuary: Ganosis on the colossal head from Dougga (Tunisia) / Elisabetta Neri; Caroline Bouvier; Laurence de Viguerie; Alain Brunelle; Nesrine Nasr; Fathi Béjaoui; François Baratte; Philippe Walter. - In: JOURNAL OF CULTURAL HERITAGE. - ISSN 1296-2074. - STAMPA. - 51:(2021), pp. 29-36. [10.1016/j.culher.2021.06.013]
Wax finishing in Roman polychrome statuary: Ganosis on the colossal head from Dougga (Tunisia)
Elisabetta Neri
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2021
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• Ancient sources describe the recipes and cultural values of the wax finish of the statues, known as ganosis. • Recipes are described by Pliny and Vitruvius, but never archeologically attested. • Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry analyses are performed on one Roman statue from Dougga. • The use of wax finish, following the ancient recipes, and the potential of the TOF-SIMS are demonstrated for the first time in the study of ancient polychromy of statues.
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