TY - JOUR A1 - Rabin, Ira A1 - Hahn, Oliver T1 - Dead Sea scrolls exhibitions around the world: reasons for concern JF - Restaurator : international journal for the preservation of library and archival material N2 - The Dead Sea Scrolls that miraculously survived for over two thousand years suffered considerable damage due to various post-dicovery interventions. Today they are subjected to frequent travelling exhibitions. The current work collates the published information on exhibitions and conservational treatments with the results of the analytic studies of the skin-based material of the scrolls conducted since their discovery. The examination of the properties of the scrolls proves that frequent travel, exhibitons and the associated handling induce collagen deterioration that is covered up by the absence of a proper monitoring program. KW - Dead Sea scrolls KW - Deterioration KW - Collagen KW - Conservation science PY - 2012 DO - https://doi.org/10.1515/res-2012-0005 SN - 0034-5806 SN - 1865-8431 VL - 33 IS - 2 SP - 101 EP - 121 PB - Saur CY - München AN - OPUS4-26306 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wilke, M. A1 - Hahn, Oliver A1 - Woodland, A. B. A1 - Rickers, K. T1 - The oxidation state of iron determined by Fe K-edge XANES-application to iron gall ink in historical manuscripts JF - Journal of analytical atomic spectrometry N2 - Fe K-edge XANES measurements were performed to determine the oxidation state of iron in iron gall inks. These data are used to investigate the relationship between the Fe oxidation state and ink corrosion in historical manuscripts. The oxidation state is determined using the pre-edge based on a general variation trend that was derived from model compounds and validated here independently on a suite of samples with known oxidation state and Fe in octahedral coordination (i.e. similar to Fe in gall ink). As long as suitable references for the pure ferric and ferrous state of iron gall inks cannot be pointed out, the analysis of the pre-edge of the Fe K-edge represents the only way to acquire absolute values for the Fe oxidation state (Fe3+/Fetot) with spatial resolution for this usually non-crystalline compound. Fe3+/Fetot values for the ink samples vary between ca. 0.7 and 1.0. Spatially resolved analyses performed across ink strokes of various historical manuscripts as well as newly made samples did not reveal any systematic spatial dependence. On average, historical samples that were exposed to conservation treatments show a more oxidized state. However, the measurements demonstrate explicitly that the exposure to X-rays during the XANES acquisition affects the oxidation state of Fe in most iron gall inks. KW - Cultural heritage KW - Conservation science KW - Non-destructive testing KW - X-ray absorption spectroscopy PY - 2009 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/b904438h SN - 0267-9477 SN - 1364-5544 VL - 24 IS - - SP - 1364 EP - 1372 PB - Royal Society of Chemistry CY - London AN - OPUS4-19975 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -