Orpiment
Persia
Recipe Details
Ingredients
arsenic trisulphide, arsenic sulphide
Preparation Steps
Produced by milling arsenic sulphide. Historical recipes consist of pulverizing it with water and mixing with gum Arabic until it becomes a soft paste (p. 101).
Original Recipe Text
Produced by milling arsenic sulphide. Historical recipes consist of pulverizing it with water and mixing with gum Arabic until it becomes a soft paste (p. 101).
Evidence
"In nearly all the Shāhnāma manuscript analysed in this project orpiment as a yellow colour was identified either alone or mixed with gold... or yellow dyes."
Remarks
Known as zarnikh in Persian. In XRF, As lines are at 10.53 (K̑) and 11.73 (K̒) keV. The inflection point in FORS is around 460–490 nm (p. 101).
Scientific Analysis
Chemical CompositionAs2S3
Analytical Techniques
FORS
XRF
Certainty Level
Confirmed
Instrumentally Verified
Verified
Metadata
Material Type
pigment
BinderAcacia gum
ColorGold
RegionPersia
Source Information
TitleUntitled
AuthorAnonymous
Collectionnearly all the Shāhnāma manuscript analysed, RAS 239
Language
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