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Integrating optical imaging of mummy mask cartonnage

Toth, MB; Toth, CA; Christens-Barry, W; Farsiu, S; Li Duke, G; Gibson, A; Terras, M; (2018) Integrating optical imaging of mummy mask cartonnage. In: Archiving 2018. (pp. pp. 157-162). Society for Imaging Sciences and Technology Green open access

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Abstract

This rapid development and testing project captured data from multiple digital imaging techniques to try to see texts in papyrus mâché mummy mask cartonnage layers. Prior studies by other scholars destroyed the masks to access the papyri, denying future researcher access to the primary historical artefacts. This international, multidisciplinary project assessed the feasibility of integrating non-destructive digital imaging technologies to make texts visible in images of papyrus in mummy mask cartonnages for open research and analysis. The team used both optical multispectral imaging and optical coherence tomography at Duke University to try to detect the presence of text and offer scientifically valid approaches for documenting the initial state of objects and their production for future research and analysis without their destruction.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Integrating optical imaging of mummy mask cartonnage
Event: Archiving 2018: Digitization Preservation, and Access, 17-20 April 2018, Washington DC, USA
ISBN-13: 9781510860520
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.2352/issn.2168-3204.2018.1.0.34
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.2352/issn.2168-3204.2018.1.0.34
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Centre for Editing Lives and Letters
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10054454
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