PIER is pleased to announce its first workshop on "Artefact Profiling: Written Artefacts and Materials Science" in cooperation with the UHH Cluster of Excellence "Understanding Written Artefacts". The workshop will take place at Bahrenfeld campus (FLASH seminar room) on 26 April 2024, 10am - 3pm.
"Artefact Profiling" designates the cross-disciplinary research on written artefacts that involves various subjects in the humanities, the natural sciences and computer science. It was added as a PIER Emerging Topic to the PIER portfolio in 2023 based on the cooperation between DESY, TUHH and the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ (UWA) at UHH. Together, these institutions develop new methodologies in material analysis and ‘fingerprinting’ of cultural heritage objects in order to learn more about the history, preservation, and provenance of written artefacts.
This PIER workshop presents recent developments in four joint projects on cuneiform clay tablets, paper and South Asian palm leaves, using technologies such as the large-scale analytical facilities at DESY and the newly developed portable X-ray tomograph ‘ENCI’, which recently returned from its first mission to the Louvre in Paris.
Speakers and talks:
- Riccardo Cameli Manzo (DESY), Martin Etter (DESY) & Szilvia Sövegjártó (UHH): "A Synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction study on cuneiform clay artefacts"
- Malgorzata Grzelec (UHH/DESY), Sylvio Haas (DESY) & Agnieszka Helman-Ważny (UHH): "Measurements of paper components: multiscale structural characteristics of paper fibres"
- Giovanni Ciotti (UHH), Laura Gallardo Dominguez (TUHH) & Patrick Huber (TUHH/ DESY): "Deciphering origins: a multiscale structural analysis of palm-leaf manuscripts using synchrotron X-ray scattering"
- Samaneh Ehteram (UHH) & Philipp Paetzold (DESY/UHH): "Reading closed cuneiform tablets on site at the Louvre with the mobile X-ray CT system ENCI"
- Andreas Beckert (UHH) & Stephan Olbrich (UHH): "Interactive 3D visualization of closed cuneiform tablets"
