The reconstruction made in 2010 follows the incised patterns and colors that were identified by scientific analysis. Additionally, stars appear on the back of the garment, evidently intended to represent a constellation. Metal rosettes and shiny yellow swastikas (painted with orpiment and gold ocher) were scattered over the entire garment. Gold leaf and lead tin foil that gleams like silver were applied to the dress and the jewelry. Wherever the underside of the fabric is visible - on the sleeve and the lower hem - a dark red pigment (hematite) was deliberately used. With the help of ultraviolet-visible absorption spectroscopy (UV-Vis spectroscopy) and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF), traces of a numbers of colors on the flesh and clothing could be identified: red and brown madder, red and brown ocher, lead white for the eyes, flesh, and hair, as well as three different reds and yellows (red and yellow iron oxide and orpiment for the garment). The famous sculptor Aristion of Paros signed the work. The epigram on the base tells us that she died young, before she could marry.
She wears a crown of lotus buds and holds a single bud in her left hand.
"This richly decorated statue stood on the tomb of a girl named Phrasikleia. Certain ornaments had been gilded or perhaps covered with a lead-and-tin foil. These techniques revealed numerous pigments: red and brown madder lake, red and brown ocher, and lead white for the eyes, skin, and hair, as well as red and yellow iron oxide, orpiment, and cinnabar for the dress. The colors in this reconstruction of an ancient Greek marble statue of a young woman were identified on the original with the help of ultraviolet-visible absorption spectroscopy and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy.
0 kommentar(er)
