Spectral Analysis of Pottery-Painting Pigments from the Monarch Bai Tomb of Zhongli State
YANG Yu-zhang1, ZHANG Ju-zhong1, ZUO Jian2, KAN Xu-hang3, ZHOU Qun3
1. Department of History of Science and Technology and Archaeometry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China 2. Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China 3. Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Anhui Province, Hefei 230061, China
Abstract：Based on the analysis of Raman spectroscopy and XRD methods, the structures of different pigments on the painted pottery from the Monarch Bai Tomb of Zhongli State in the middle and late Spring and Autumn period at Shungdun Village, Bengbu City, Anhui Province were analyzed. The result shows that all the pigments, including red, yellow and black pigments, have been well preserved, and these three pigments were identified as cinnabar, goethite and carbon black respectively. Both Raman spectroscopy and XRD analysis show that the crystal composition of red pigments, cinnabar, is very pure without quartz crystal, the associated crystal of natural cinnabar, and at the same time the crystal size of cinnabar is possibly at the nanometer scale. It suggests that this red pigments perhaps were a synthetic material or processed and purified by our ancestors. The discovery of goethite shows that this mineral has been used as pigments as early as in the Spring and Autumn period. This is the earliest example that goethite was used as yellow pigments.
杨玉璋1，张居中1，左 健2 ，阚绪杭3，周 群3 . “钟离君柏”墓出土彩绘陶器颜料的光谱分析[J]. 光谱学与光谱分析, 2010, 30(04): 1130-1133.
YANG Yu-zhang1, ZHANG Ju-zhong1, ZUO Jian2, KAN Xu-hang3, ZHOU Qun3 . Spectral Analysis of Pottery-Painting Pigments from the Monarch Bai Tomb of Zhongli State . SPECTROSCOPY AND SPECTRAL ANALYSIS, 2010, 30(04): 1130-1133.
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