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14C Dating Compared to Art Historical Dating of Roman and Coptic Textiles from Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Mark Van Strydonck ,
Antoine De Moor  and
Dominique Bénazeth
Mark Van Strydonck
Affiliation:
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Jubelpark 1, B–1000 Brussels, Belgium.
Antoine De Moor
Affiliation:
University of Ghent, Windekekouter 90, 9860 Scheldewindeke, Belgium.
Dominique Bénazeth
Affiliation:
Département des antiquités égyptiennes, section Copte. Musée du Louvre, F-75058 Paris cédex 1, France.
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A representative selection of Roman and Coptic textiles is used to compare the radiocarbon dating results with the chronology proposed by art historians. In some cases, the comparison was made on individual objects, but in other cases, groups of stylistically and/or technologically related textiles were compared. In the case of the latter, the interquartile range was calculated. The results of this comparison show that some individual samples and groups are dated older than expected, while for another group the opposite is the case. One group was matching well with the presumed period as a whole, but not on the basis of the individual pieces. The analyses showed the necessity of 14C dating to obtain a more accurate dating of Coptic textiles.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 46 , Issue 1: Proceedings of the 18th International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 1 of 2), Conference Editors: Nancy Beavan Athfield, Rodger J Sparks , 2004 , pp. 231 - 244
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Copyright © 2004 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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