Garments in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

Hall, Rosalind

doi:10.1179/tex.1982.13.1.27

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“…General Comment (RH): dates fall at end of Old Kingdom and are very unexpected as there is no recorded occupation of site at that time; possibly ransacking of Mastaba 2050 took place in 5th or 6th Dynasties, much earlier than Petrie believed. If so, dates provide closer tie between Tarkhan tunics (Hall, 1982;Landi and Hall, 1979) and nearest parallels, tunics of 5th Dynasty date found by Petrie at Deshasheh (Hall, 1981).…”

Section: Egyptmentioning

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British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements XIV

1982

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The following list consists of dates for archaeologic and some geologic samples, mostly measured from January 1978 to December 1979. The dates were obtained by liquid scintillation counting of benzene using the laboratory procedures outlined in previous lists (see, eg, BM-VIII, R, 1976, v 18, p 16). The dates are expressed in radiocarbon years relative to ad 1950 based on the Libby half-life for 14C of 5570 yr, and are corrected for isotopic fractionation (δ13C values are relative to PDB). No corrections have been made for natural 14C variations. The modern reference standard is NBS oxalic acid (SRM 4990). Errors quoted with the dates are based on counting statistics alone and are equivalent to ± 1 standard deviation (± 1σ). Dates in this list reported to submitters or published elsewhere before the introduction of the new guidelines for rounding of computed figures have deliberately been left unrounded. From BM-XV onwards all BM dates will be rounded before publication in conformity with the recently recommended procedures (R, 1977, v 19, p 362). Descriptions, comments, and references to publications are based on information supplied by submitters.

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British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements XIV

1982

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“…Hall reflected that 'modern scientific techniques of conservation, analysis, and absolute dating have often ... forced the Petrie Museum to make a complete re-evaluation of…original identification and dating …'. 26 This recognition of the creation of meaning through conservation can be linked to the 'material turn' in cultural studies whereby objects which are perceived as having agency in the making of meaning. 27 Textiles are particularly responsive records of the people who created, utilised, altered and discarded them and conservation engagement provides deeper understanding of these processes of making, re-use, degradation and disposal.…”

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Brooks¹

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“…Until recently, the relatively large amount of sample needed (ca lOg) has precluded the application of conventional 14C measurement (by standard gas-proportional and liquid scintillation counting methods) to the dating of documents, as it has never been permissible to remove a sufficient quantity of material for worthwhile analysis. The same difficulty has sometimes arisen with ancient textiles, eg, two tunics from Tarkhan, Egypt (Burleigh, Matthews, and Ambers, 1982;Hall, 1982), with which individual garments have been too important to allow even partial destruction for dating (although without a precise date their archaeologic value may have been correspondingly diminished). With the advent of (in R L Otlet's terminology) "micro-" and "mini-" methods of 14C measurementby means of accelerators (Hedges, 1981;Stuiver, 1978) and small counters (Iiarbottle, Sayre, and Stoenner, 1979;Otlet and Evans, 1982;Sayre et al, 1981), for which a few milligrams or less of sample are needed, the former constraint of minimum sample size has been removed.…”

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Possibilities in the Dating of Writing Materials and Textiles

Burleigh¹,

Baynes-Cope²

1983

Radiocarbon

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This paper discusses the characteristics of the commoner classes of writing materials and textiles deriving from ancient and more recent historical sources and the problems they present for 14C dating. The materials under consideration are, firstly, paper in various forms, parchment, and vellum (ancient papyrus, which poses different kinds of dating problems, is not considered) and secondly, fabrics such as linen, cotton, and woolen textiles, to which, from the dating point of view, similar technical considerations apply. Our main concern is with problems associated with the dating of paper.

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Garments in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

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British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements XIV

British Museum Natural Radiocarbon Measurements XIV

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Possibilities in the Dating of Writing Materials and Textiles

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