Tutankhamun’s Polychrome Wooden Shawabtis: Preliminary Investigation for Pigments and Gilding Characterization and Indirect Dating of Previous Restorations by the Combined Use of Imaging and Spectroscopic Techniques

Abstract To the best of our knowledge, such a detailed study on polychrome wooden shawabtis King Tutankhamun (18th Dynasty in ancient Egypt) has not been reported literature, so purpose is to noninvasively identify layers and previously applied materials for number that belong through protocol based imaging techniques integrated with single-spot spectroscopic techniques. In first step, (visible, ultraviolet induced visible luminescence, reflected, visible-induced infrared false color) optical microscopy were gather information provide evidence distribution original surfaces. second step work, we analyzed selected areas analyses (handheld X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy reflectance spectroscopy) diffraction analysis. The previous restoration interventions studied by Fourier transform spectroscopy. application data obtained from allowed characterization remarkable some mapping their surface, which provides only essential follow-up treatment conservation works but also offers important other periods Egypt.