The employment of pXRF analysis for the qualitative study of Hellenistic and Roman terracottas from the House of Orpheus in Nea Paphos

Abstract

In recent years, portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) has become one of the most commonly used analytical tools for determining, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the chemical composition of a variety of materials of archaeological and historical significance. The term “qualitative” refers to the characterisation of materials based on some quality or characteristic, rather than on some quantity or measured value, as in the case of a “quantitative” research, which relates to values of measu...