key words: wall paintings, rocky hewn churches, Cappadocia (Turkey), pigments, Raman spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectrometry This paper presents the results of the analysis on the rock hewn wall paintings of eleven churches in Cappadocia, Turkey. A large group of churches in the region of Nevşehir were analysed in order to increase the database of materials and techniques of medie...

Jean-Marie Poumirol,1 Alessandro Cresti,2,* Stephan Roche,3,4 Walter Escoffier,1 Michel Goiran,1 Xinran Wang,5 Xiaolin Li,5 Hongjie Dai,5 and Bertrand Raquet1 1Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses, INSA UPS CNRS, UPR 3228, Université de Toulouse, 143 avenue de Rangueil, 31400 Toulouse, France 2LETI, MINATEC, CEA, F38054 Grenoble, France 3INAC, SP2M, Lsim, CEA, 17 avenue des Mart...

D. Lançon,1,2 H. C. Walker,3 E. Ressouche,4 B. Ouladdiaf,1 K. C. Rule,5 G. J. McIntyre,5 T. J. Hicks,6 H. M. Rønnow,2 and A. R. Wildes1,* 1Institut Laue-Langevin, CS 20156, 38042 Grenoble Cédex 9, France 2Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, SB ICMP LQM, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 3ISIS facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot OX11 0QX, UK 4CEA-Grenoble/INAC, Lab...

O. Isnard,1,2 C. Rusu,3 R. Dudric,3 D. Andreica,3 A. Amato,4 and B. Chevalier5 1Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut Néel, F-38042 Grenoble, France 2CNRS, Institut Néel, 25 Rue des Martyrs, F-38042 Grenoble, France 3Faculty of Physics, Babeş-Bolyai University, RO-400084 Cluj Napoca, Romania 4Laboratory for Muon Spin Spectroscopy, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen-PSI, Switzerland 5CNRS, U...

With the conversion to Christianity in Theodosian age, Roman aristocracy projected their class ideology and self-representation into conception of religious sanctity vision Afterlife. On a literary level, this gives rise an eschatological imagery which holy souls are nobility ‘notables’ ( proceres ) eternal res publica , they constitute ‘heavenly senate’ caelestis curia seated around throne God...