Revealing text in a complexly rolled silver scroll from Jerash with computed tomography and advanced imaging software.
Revealing text in a complexly rolled silver scroll from Jerash with computed tomography and advanced imaging software.
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DOI：
10.1038/srep17765
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发表时间：
2015-12-09
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Raja R
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作者：
Hoffmann Barfod G;Larsen JM;Lichtenberger A;Raja R
在整个古代，写在纸莎草纸上的魔法护身符，铅和银都被用于避世的原因。虽然纸莎草纸通常可以展开和破译，但金属卷轴通常非常薄，卷得很紧，要想展开而不损坏金属是不容易的。这给我们留下了无法阅读的结果，因为造成了破坏，或者决定不展开卷轴。这些文本差异很大，告诉我们地中海各地的文化环境和当地以及个人的做法。在这里，我们介绍了从8世纪中叶开始，从约旦的杰拉什数字化展开银片的方法和结果。这幅卷轴上刻着17行假定为伪阿拉伯语的文字，以及一些神奇的符号。这一成功的展开表明，以数字方式展开复杂折叠的卷轴是可能的，但这需要软件技术和语言知识的结合。
Throughout Antiquity magical amulets written on papyri, lead and silver were used for apotropaic reasons. While papyri often can be unrolled and deciphered, metal scrolls, usually very thin and tightly rolled up, cannot easily be unrolled without damaging the metal. This leaves us with unreadable results due to the damage done or with the decision not to unroll the scroll. The texts vary greatly and tell us about the cultural environment and local as well as individual practices at a variety of locations across the Mediterranean. Here we present the methodology and the results of the digital unfolding of a silver sheet from Jerash in Jordan from the mid-8th century CE. The scroll was inscribed with 17 lines in presumed pseudo-Arabic as well as some magical signs. The successful unfolding shows that it is possible to digitally unfold complexly folded scrolls, but that it requires a combination of the know-how of the software and linguistic knowledge.