Radiocarbon Dating of Cloth from the 'Ain Feshkha Cave

Sellers, Ovid R.

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“…Scientific analysis (radiocarbon dating) offers firm grounds for the dating of the writing surface to overcome the divide between dating by colophons and relative chronology by paleography and philology. The potential of radiocarbon dating has been recognized since the very early days of the method, which nearly coincided with the discovery of Dead Sea Scrolls (Sellers 1951). However, the early radiocarbon dating of precious manuscripts was limited by the size of required samples, measured in grams of parchment and paper.…”

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Radiocarbon Dating of Manuscripts Kept in the Central Library of the University of Tehran

Aghaei

Bahrololoumi²,

Hajdas³

et al. 2023

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This article discusses radiocarbon dating results of documents preserved at the Central Library of the University of Tehran (hereafter, CLUT) as part of the project “Irankoran.” The paper adds new evidence to an ongoing campaign of dating Qurʾāns and Oriental manuscripts by the Corpus Coranicum Project. The dated manuscripts include one kūfī fragment of the Qurʾān on parchment (no. 10950) and a selection of Islamic and Persian manuscripts, all from the second millennium: the Arabic dictionary Muǧmal al-Luġah (Meškāt no. 203), the medical encyclopedia Ḏaḫīrah-ye Kh w ārazmšāhī (no. 5156), the epic Panǧ Ganǧ of Neẓāmī (no. 5179), the book of wisdom Ādāb al-Falāsifah (no. 2165) attributed to Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq (d. 873 CE), and one of the oldest extant manuscripts of the Avesta Wīdēwdād (no. 11263). Although the authenticity of their colophons is disputed, radiocarbon dating supports the dates of the colophons; even in cases where they were suspected of being tampered with, they most likely present the accurate original dates of the corresponding manuscripts. Only in the case of Ādāb al-Falāsifah (no. 2165), radiocarbon dating of the parchment has identified the manuscript as non-authentic. Inconsistent carbon dating results of two samples taken from Ḏaḫīrah-ye Khwārazmšāhī (no. 5156) and Panǧ Ganǧ (no. 5179) provide evidence of later replaced/added leaves.

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Radiocarbon Dating of Manuscripts Kept in the Central Library of the University of Tehran

Aghaei

Bahrololoumi²,

Hajdas³

et al. 2023

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Radiocarbon Dating in the Southern Levant

Weinstein

1984

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Radiocarbon dating provides the principal chronometric data for the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic, Epipalaeolithic, and Chalcolithic periods in the southern Levant. It is a secondary source of dating evidence for the Early Bronze age, when archaeological correlations with Syria and especially Egypt become available. For the Middle and Late Bronze age, Iron age, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods, 14C dating has only limited value because the technique is less precise than the normally available archaeologic and historic materials.

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8 Führen Wege aus den Höhlen nach Qumran?

1996

Wissenschaftstheorie Und Qumran

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Radiocarbon Dating of Cloth from the 'Ain Feshkha Cave

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Radiocarbon Dating of Manuscripts Kept in the Central Library of the University of Tehran

Radiocarbon Dating of Manuscripts Kept in the Central Library of the University of Tehran

Radiocarbon Dating in the Southern Levant

8 Führen Wege aus den Höhlen nach Qumran?

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