[split] Jorge's Retracer Thread: darker ink, retracing of text and drawings

[Jorge_Stolfi]

This l from 71r (snippet 5) does look significantly darker in red/IR, but I see no evidence of any obvious previous shape, no obvious double strokes or anything like this.

Thanks a lot for the MIS images!  But I must apologize for a mistake: the examples of "misshaped glyphs" on f71r were samples 6 and 7, not 4 and 5.  

Anyway, as I wrote, on those two pages my hypothetical Retracer worked only on the nymphs, if at all; not on the text.

A more interesting example would be my sample 6 from f70.  The hairline of the nymph is clearly retraced, and the ink colors are very different.  That sample also has some of the light golden-yellow paint (distinct from the "normal" ink) that was widely used through the VMs, in particular on the hair of nymphs and and inside the stars.  It would be interesting to see what multispectral imaging shows about it.

(By the way, the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. to the VMs image viewer has been returning "403 forbidden" for me since yesterday.  Is it working for you?)

All the best, --jorge