Provenance study of lapis lazuli

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Lapis Lazuli is one of the oldest precious stone, being used for glyptic as early as 7000 years ago. Only few sources of Lapis Lazuli exist in the world due to the low probability of geological conditions in which it can be formed, so that the possibility to associate the raw material to man-made objects is helpful to reconstruct trade routes. Lapis Lazuli provenance is still an open question and a systematic study on Lapis Lazuli objects would be helpful in resolving such problem. Since art objects produced using Lapis Lazuli are valuable, only non-invasive techniques can be used to identify the provenance of the raw materials. The purpose of the experiment is to analyze, by means of neutron diffraction, lapis lazuli rocks from different provenances (Afghanistan, Siberia, Pamir Mountains and Chile) and some artworks made in lapis lazuli.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089718
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089718
Provenance
Creator Dr Alessandro Lo Giudice; Miss Debora Angelici; Professor Giovanni Pratesi; Dr Alessandro Re; Mr Jacopo Corsi; Dr Federico Barello
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-10-22T15:24:34Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-10-28T12:52:03Z