Sculpture
Abbe, M., and G. Verri. 2018. “The ‘Bursa Relief’: A Non-Invasive Analytical Investigation of an Exceptionally Painted Roman Marble Portrait.” In Polychromy in Ancient Sculpture and Architecture, edited by S. Bracci, G. Giachi, P. Liverani, P. Pallecchi, and F. Paolucci, 166–82. Livorno: Sillabe.
Abramitis, D., and M. Abbe. 2019. “A Group of Painted Funerary Monuments from Hellenistic Alexandria in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” Technè 48: 60–71.
Aly, Zaki, and Société royale d’archéologie d’Alexandrie. 1949. Some Funerary Stelae from Kom Abou Bellou. Alexandrie: Société de Publications Egyptiennes.
Bradley, M. 2009. “The Importance of Colour on Ancient Marble Sculpture.” Art History 32, no 3 (June): 427–57.
Brinkmann, V., O. Primavesi, and M. Hollein. 2010. Circumlitio: The Polychromy of Antique and Mediaeval Sculpture. Munich: Hirmer Verlag.
Dyer, J., E. R. O’Connell, and A. Simpson. 2014. “Polychromy in Roman Egypt: A Study of a Limestone Sculpture of the Egyptian God Horus.” Edited by D. Saunders. British Museum Technical Research Bulletin 8.
Hooper, F. A. 1961. Funerary Stelae from Kom Abou Billou. Kelsey Museum Studies 1. Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan.
Kakoulli, I. 2001. “Scientific Investigations of Three Graeco-Roman Painted Stone Slabs.” In Nécropolis 1: Études alexandrines 5, edited by J-Y. Empereur and M-D. Nenna, 215–24. Le Caire: Institut français d’archéologie orientale.
Kopczynski, N., L. de Viguerie, E. Neri, N. Nasr, P. Walter, F. Bejaoui, and F. Baratte. 2017. “Polychromy in Africa Proconsularis: Investigating Roman Statues Using X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy.” Antiquity 91 (355): 139–54.
McCleary, R. 1987. Portals to Eternity: The Necropolis at Terenouthis in Lower Egypt: The University of Michigan’s Reconnaissance Expedition to Kom Abou Billou, The Necropolis of Ancient Terenouthis (March to April 1935). Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan.
Østergaard, Jan Stubbe, and Nielsen, Anne Marie, eds. 2014. Transformations: Classical Sculpture in Colour. Translated by N. M. Stanford. Copenhagen, Denmark: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.
Verri, G., and T. Opper. 2010. “The ‘Treu-Head’: A Case Study in Roman Sculptural Polychromy.” British Museum Technical Research Bulletin 4.
Wall Paintings
Béarat, H., M. Fuchs, M. Maggetti, and D. Paumier, eds. 1997. Roman Wall Painting: Materials, Techniques, Analysis and Conservation. Fribourg, Switzerland: Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography.
Guimier-Sorbets, A-M., M-D. Nenna, and M. Sief el-Din. 2001. “Le décor peint des tombes B1, B2 and B3.” In Nécropolis 1. Ed. J-Y. Empereur and M-D. Nenna. Le Caire; Paris: Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 161–208.
Marey Mahmoud, H., A Brania, and M. Hussein. 2019. “Pigments and Plasters from the Roman Temple of Deir El-Hagar, Dakhla Oasis, Egypt: Vibrational Spectroscopic Characterization.” Rendiconti Lincei 30 (4): 735–46.
Tiradritti, F. 2007. “Color in Egyptian Art.” In Egyptian Wall Painting. New York, London: Abbeville Press.
Venit, Marjorie. 2016. Visualizing the Afterlife in the Tombs of Graeco-Roman Egypt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ceramics
Allen, M. L. 1985. “The Terracotta Figurines from Karanis: A Study of Technique, Style, and Chronology in Fayoumic Coroplastics.” PhD diss., University of Michigan.
Asderaki-Tzoumerkioti, E., and A. Doulgeri-Intzesiloglou. 2010. “Hellenistic Terracotta Figurines from Pherai: Tin Foil Detection and Pigment Identification.” Restaurierung und Archäologie 3 (January): 151–61.
Boutantin, C. 2013. Terres cuites et culte domestique: Bestiaire de l’Égypte gréco-romaine. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 179. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
Fostiridou, A., I. Karapanagiotis, S. Vivdenko, D. Lampakis, D. Mantzouris, L. Achilara, and P. Manoudis. 2016. “Identification of Pigments in Hellenistic and Roman Funeral Figurines.” Archaeometry 58, no. 3 (June 2016): 453–64.
Kakoulli, I., R. Radpour, Y. Lin, M. Svoboda, and C. Fischer. 2017. “Application of Forensic Photography for the Detection and Mapping of Egyptian Blue and Madder Lake in Hellenistic Polychrome Terracottas Based on Their Photophysical Properties.” Dyes and Pigments 136 (January): 104–15.
Maravelaki-Kalaitzaki, P., and N. Kallithrakas-Kontos. 2003. “Pigment and Terracotta Analyses of Hellenistic Figurines in Crete.” Analytica Chimica Acta 497 (1–2): 209–25.
Tsatsouli, K., and E. Nikolaou. 2017. “The Ancient Demetrias Figurines: New Insights on Pigments and Decoration Techniques Used on Hellenistic Clay Figurines.” STAR: Science & Technology of Archaeological Research 3 (2): 341–57.
Wood
Bradley, L., J. Ford, D. Kriss, V. Schussler, F. Pozzi, E. Basso, and L. Bruno. 2020. “Evaluating Multiband Reflectance Image Subtraction for the Characterization of Indigo in Romano-Egyptian Funerary Portraits.” In Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project, edited by C. Cartwright and M. Svoboda, 68–78. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum.
Ganio, M., J. Salvant, J. Williams, L. Lee, and O. Cossairt. 2015. “Investigating the Use of Egyptian Blue in Roman Egyptian Portraits and Panels from Tebtunis, Egypt.” Applied Physics A 121 (3): 813–21.
Svoboda, M., and C. Cartwright, eds. 2020. Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt: Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project. Los Angeles: Getty Publications.
Svoboda, M., and M. Walton. 2007. “Material Investigations of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Red-Shroud Mummy.” In Decorated Surfaces on Ancient Egyptian Objects: Technology, Deterioration and Conservation: Proceedings of a Conference Held in Cambridge, UK on 7-8 September 2007, edited by J. Dawson, C. Rozeik, and M. Wright, 148–55. London: Archetype.
Walker, S., ed. 1997. Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt. London: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press.