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    Université de Fribourg

    Sulfur isotope analysis of cinnabar from Roman wall paintings by elemental analysis/isotope ratio mass spectrometry – tracking the origin of archaeological red pigments and their authenticity

    Spangenberg, Jorge E. ; Lavrič, Jošt V. ; Meisser, Nicolas ; Serneels, Vincent

    In: Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 2010, vol. 24, no. 19, p. 2812-2816

    The most valuable pigment of the Roman wall paintings was the red color obtained from powdered cinnabar (Minium Cinnabaris pigment), the red mercury sulfide (HgS), which was brought from mercury (Hg) deposits in the Roman Empire. To address the question of whether sulfur isotope signatures can serve as a rapid method to establish the provenance of the red pigment in Roman frescoes, we...