TY - GEN A1 - Cohen, Zina T1 - Analysis of writing materials in Genizah fragments written during the first half of the XIth century N2 - My doctoral dissertation in progress focuses on ink composition on some fragments found in the Cairo Genizah and written by the leaders of the Jewish communities in Fustat during the first half of the XIth century. This is a project at the intersection of historical (Hebrew paleography) and scientific (physics, chemistry and materials science) disciplines. Indeed, I’m analyzing the corpus I constituted (written by Ephraim ben Shemarya and Yephet ben David from the Palestinian congregation and Elhanan ben Shemarya, Abraham ben Sahlan and Sahlan ben Abraham from the Babylonian community). The interests of such a study are numerous: provide insights on trade, local technologies, and social structures. If sufficient data is collected, the tabulated results have the potential for use as an indirect geochronological marker, in particular in the case of iron-gall ink. The composition of the vitriol used for the iron-gall ink preparation depends on the place of extraction. While attributing the vitriol used to a specific source of extraction is seldom possible, a number of origins can be excluded thanks to such analysis. Though ink composition alone cannot be used as a direct geochronological marker, superposition of chemical, palaeographical, codicological, and textual data would help to date and localize and serve as an additional argument for a typology and dating of other Hebrew scripts. T2 - Konferenz EAJS Summer Laboratory for Young Genizah Researchers and those Interested in the Field CY - Munich, Germany DA - 06.09.2017 KW - XRF Analysis KW - Archaeometry KW - Medieval Jewish manuscripts KW - Cairo Genizah PY - 2017 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46128 AN - OPUS4-46128 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany