Scythica Vindobonensia Spectral Imaging Project

2016, Austrian National Library.

Funded by the Austrian Science Foundation.

Continuing from initial imaging in 2013, this project applied advances in spectral imaging to Scythica Vindobonensia, Codex Historicus gr. 73 of the Austrian National Library, to elucidate further a unique witness to the historical writings of Dexippus, an Athenian historian of the 3rd c. CE.

The project applied both spectral imaging and x-ray fluorescence imaging (XRFi) to the palimpsest, revealing a detailed narrative of at least two invasions of the ‘barbarians’ into the Roman provinces in the Balkans in the middle of the third century A.D.

See here for the new homepage of the Dexippus palimpsest project:
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/scythica-vindobonensia/home

https://www.livescience.com/54092-goth-greek-battle-revealed-in-ancient-text.html

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