Sero Dzemila, Garachon Isabelle, Hermens Erma, Batenburg Kees Joost
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Science Park 123, Amsterdam 1098 XG, Netherlands.
Conservation & Science, Rijksmuseum, Hobbemastraat 22, Amsterdam 1071 ZC, Netherlands.
Sci Adv. 2023 Sep 22;9(38):eadg6073. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adg6073. Epub 2023 Sep 20.
In the fine arts, impressions found on terracotta sculptures in museum collections are scarcely reported and not in a systematic manner. Here, we present a procedure for scanning fingermarks and toolmarks found on the visible surface and inner walls of a terracotta sculpture using 3D micro-computed tomography, as well as methods for quantitatively characterizing these impressions. We apply our pipeline on the terracotta sculpture , attributed to Laurent Delvaux and housed in the Rijksmuseum collection. On the basis of combined archaeology and forensics research that assigns age groups to makers of European ancestry from ridge breadth values, we estimate that the fingermarks belong to an adult male. Given that each fingerprint is unique and the carving tools were exclusively made in the artist's workshop, we give incentive to aim for artist profiling using innovative computational approaches on preserved impressions from terracotta sculptures.
在美术领域，博物馆收藏的兵马俑雕塑上发现的印记鲜有报道，且缺乏系统性。在此，我们介绍一种使用三维显微计算机断层扫描技术扫描兵马俑雕塑可见表面和内壁上的指纹和工具痕迹的方法，以及对这些印记进行定量表征的方法。我们将我们的流程应用于一件归属于洛朗·德尔沃克斯、收藏于荷兰国家博物馆的兵马俑雕塑。基于结合考古学和法医学的研究，该研究根据嵴纹宽度值为欧洲血统的制造者划分年龄组，我们估计这些指纹属于一名成年男性。鉴于每个指纹都是独一无二的，且雕刻工具是在艺术家工作室专门制作的，我们鼓励利用创新的计算方法对兵马俑雕塑上保存的印记进行艺术家画像分析。
