TY - CONF A1 - Rabin, Ira A2 - Ciner, P. A2 - Nunez, A. T1 - Writing Materials of the Dead See Scrolls T2 - The Discoveries of Manuscripts from Late Antiquity N2 - The first manuscripts from the Qumran caves were found in 1947. Within the following 10 years, clandestine and legal excavations revealed some 900 highly fragmented manuscripts from the late Second Temple period. This collection is generally known as Scrolls of the Judea Desert or Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS). For many years after their discovery, text analysis and fragmeents attribution were the main concern of the scholars dealing with the scrolls. The uncertain archaeological provenance of the larger part of the collection added an additional difficulty to the formidable task of sorting some 19000 fragments. After 60 years of scholar research the question of origin, archaeological provenance and correct attribution of the fragmenst are still hotly debated. To dtermine a possible contribution to the debate from the point of view of writing materials, we used otpical and electron microscopy, various X-ray based techniques as well as vibratiional sprectroscopy. We validated our approach with SY - based studies using the advantages of the synchroton radiation source with respect to the benchtop devices. Our laboratory studies showed that often production and storage locality could be distinguished thenks to the specific residues ("fingerprint") they left on the material. Moreover, we have diescovered that diferrent parchment production processses coexisted in the antiquity, and the resulting writing materials can readily be distinguished. PB - Brepols CY - Turnhout, Belgium T2 - 2nd International Conference on Patristic Studies CY - San Juan, Argentina DA - 28.03.2017 KW - Dead Sea Scrolls KW - Text analysis KW - Fragmented manuscripts KW - X-ray based techniques KW - Archaeological provenance PY - 2021 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/54593 AN - OPUS4-54593 SN - 978-2-503-59149-0 SN - 2566-073X VL - 0095/ 19 SP - 325 EP - 331 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany