TY - GEN A1 - Rabin, Ira A1 - Schütz, Roman ED - Elgvin, Torleif ED - Langlois, Michael ED - Davis, Kipp T1 - Samples from the cylindrical jar MS 1655/1 T2 - The Library of Second Temple Studies / Gleanings from the caves: Dead Sea scrolls and artefacts from the Schoyen collection N2 - The aim of our work was to check whether the assumption that the jar was discovered in Qumran can be substantiated. In order to establish the archaeological provenance of the jar we conducted a series of analytical tests on samples of material collected from the jar in April and June 2009. The samples were either found loose within the jar, these being probably constituted by remnants of its original contents, or were clay detached from the inner and outer surface of the jar. In addition, a portion of sand deposit coating the inside of the jar handles was analysed. KW - Archaeometry KW - Cultural heritage KW - Dead Sea scrolls PY - 2016 SN - 978-0-5671-1300-9 SN - 978-0-5672-8571-3 VL - 71 SP - 377 EP - 392 PB - Bloomsbury T&T Clark Series CY - New York, NY 10018 USA AN - OPUS4-39229 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Rabin, Ira ED - Raggetti, L. T1 - Material Studies of Historic Inks: Transition from Carbon to Iron-Gall Inks T2 - Traces of Ink N2 - This chapter offers observations and considerations concerning black writing inks encountered in writing supports transmitting documentary and literary texts of the late Antiquity and early Middle Ages. It discusses different types of inks, the Methods of their detection and their use in different times and geographical areas. KW - Material analysis KW - Writing inks KW - Ink fingerprint PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-528057 DO - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004444805_006 SP - 70 EP - 78 PB - Brill CY - Leiden AN - OPUS4-52805 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Rabin, Ira ED - Elgvin, Torleif ED - Langlois, Michael ED - Davis, Kipp T1 - Material analysis of the fragments T2 - The Library of Second Temple Studies / Gleanings from the caves: Dead Sea scrolls and artefacts from the Schoyen collection N2 - The International Qumran project conducted at the BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing in 2007–10 aimed at establishing an optimal methodology for an accurate characterization of the Dead Sea Scrolls to address such questions as archaeological provenance, origin, and attribution of fragments to a specific sheet (Rabin 2013). Using equipment of various degrees of complexity we have shown that part of the historic information stored in the material can be revealed by proper characterization of the material. The on-site investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls fragments from The Schøyen Collection in October 2012 offered the first chance to test this methodology in a field study. For the first time, we used mobile and non-invasive technology exclusively, since we could not transport all of our laboratory equipment to Norway for this project. Moreover, besides the technical limitations dictated by the available equipment, we had to cope with limited time: it was impossible to perform the number of scans required for optimal characterization of over 30 fragments within the fourteen days available. Nevertheless this study presents an important step in the material analysis of the Dead Sea Scrolls, since the devices we used are easily transportable, well known, and easily accessible throughout the world. KW - Archaeometry KW - Cultural heritage KW - Dead Sea scrolls PY - 2016 SN - 978-0-5671-1300-9 SN - 978-0-5672-8571-3 VL - 71 SP - 61 EP - 77 PB - Bloomsbury T&T Clark Series CY - New York; NY 10018 USA AN - OPUS4-39246 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Rabin, Ira ED - Elgvin, Torleif ED - Langlois, Michael ED - Davies, Kipp T1 - Ink Sample from Inkwell MS 1655/2 T2 - The Library of Second Temple Studies / Gleanings from the caves: Dead Sea scrolls and artefacts from the Schoyen Collection N2 - We have obtained a minute amount of dry ink scratched from the bronze inkwell MS 1655/2. The powder was stored between two glass slides to minimize contamination. For micro analysis by FTIR a sample of the ink powder was transferred into a diamond cell while for confocal Raman spectroscopy a micro sample was placed onto sticky tape. The same portion of the sample was also investigated by scanning electron microscopy, where the elements distribution was determined by EDX. KW - Archaeometry KW - Cultural heritage KW - Dead Sea scrolls PY - 2016 SN - 978-0-5671-1300-9 SN - 978-0-5672-8571-3 VL - 71 SP - 463 EP - 466 PB - Bloomsbury T&T Clark Series CY - New York, NY, USA AN - OPUS4-39225 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Rabin, Ira ED - Andrews, T. L. ED - Macé, C. T1 - Ink identification to accompany digitalization of the manuscripts T2 - Analysis of ancient and medieval texts and manuscripts KW - Manuscripts KW - Iron gall ink PY - 2014 SN - 978-2-503-55268-2 SP - 293 EP - 307 PB - Brepols Publ. CY - Turnhout AN - OPUS4-34773 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Rabin, Ira A1 - Hahn, Oliver A1 - Wolff, Timo A1 - Mantouvalou, I. A1 - Kanngießer, B. A1 - Weinberg, G. T1 - Dead sea scrolls - development of the analysis methodology T2 - Modern approaches to the conservation and accessibility of cultural and historic monuments (Proceedings) T2 - Modern approaches to the conservation and accessibility of cultural and historic monuments CY - St. Petersburg, Russia DA - 2009-10-20 KW - Dead sea scrolls KW - Conservation science KW - Non destructive testing PY - 2010 SN - 978-5-8192-0370-5 SP - 122 EP - 129 AN - OPUS4-23329 LA - rus AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Cohen, Zina A1 - Olszowy-Schlanger, Judith A1 - Hahn, Oliver A1 - Rabin, Ira ED - Wandrey, T1 - Composition analysis of writing materials in Geniza fragments T2 - Jewish Manuscript Cultures N2 - Our current projects focus on the material analysis of the writing materials kept in the Taylor-Schechter Collection at Cambridge University Library, which houses the largest collection of Cairo Geniza fragments, about 190,000. Although Geniza manuscripts have attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, the material aspects of these documents seem to have been largely neglected. The current study aims to obtain information on the composition of the writing supports and the inks that were used, the production of the original manuscripts and the history of their degradation. The collected data should supplement the description based on Hebrew palaeography and codicology. Moreover, a characterisation of the writing materials would provide insights on trade, local production techniques and social structures. The tabulated results have the potential to be used as geo-chronological markers if sufficient data is collected. For our study, we chose Hebrew legal documents and letters from three communities that co-existed in Fustat (today Cairo) in the 11th century: the Jerusalemite (or ‘Palestinian’) community, the Babylonian community and the Karaites, three different communities with different scribal traditions. In addition to this, we studied non-biblical scrolls attributed to the Palestinian and Babylonian communities. The question we addressed was whether we can correlate the use of a specific type of ink to an objective criterion. For our analysis at Cambridge University Library, we used a number of protocols developed at BAM (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung) in Berlin and at the Centre for Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg (CSMC). These include reflectographic examination followed by non-destructive X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis using transportable instruments so that the analysis can be carried out in situ. We have illustrated our approach here by providing two examples. The first one describes our investigation of the leather fragment containing a portion of the Babylonian Talmud on its hair side (TS Misc.26.53.17). The second example illustrates our ability to compare iron-gall inks using the XRF method. In this case, we explored the question of the codicological attribution of three fragments (TS F17.4, TS 12.755 and TS 12.756) to the same Talmud manuscript. KW - Cairo Genizah PY - 2017 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-435590 DO - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110546422-013 VL - 13 SP - 323 PB - de Gruyter CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-43559 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Rabin, Ira ED - Wandrey, T1 - Building a bridge from the Dead Sea Scrolls T2 - Jewish Manuscript Cultures N2 - As part of the Qumran project conducted at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin between 2007 and 2010, my colleagues and I developed a new, integrated methodology for determining the original and acquired properties of highly heterogeneous Dead Sea Scrolls. The purpose of this methodology is to help scholars determine the provenance of fragments of the scrolls and sort and compare them more easily than in the past. Since our measurements allowed us to differentiate between the minerals originating from the production processes and the sediments accrued during storage in the caves in Qumran, we were able to reconstruct the treatment of hides and discovered that at least two distinct parchmentproduction techniques co-existed at the beginning of the common era. The reconstruction of workmanship on animal hides in Antiquity raised doubts about the validity of the current definition of parchment, which is based on a production technique known from the Middle Ages. We hope that our current work will also help researchers understand the characteristic properties of gewil, qelaf and dukhsustos better.¹ The evolution and socio-geographic distribution of writing inks in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages are the second focus of our investigative work at BAM. We use X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF) to determine the chemical composition of inks and NIR reflectography for their typology. We are amply assisted in our ambitious enterprise by codicologists and palaeographers who have adopted our methodology and conduct field studies of their own. KW - Dead Sea Scrolls KW - Medieval Jewish manuscripts KW - Material analysis PY - 2017 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-435582 DO - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110546422-0002 VL - 13 SP - 309 EP - 321 PB - de Gruyter CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-43558 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -