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Holy Smoke in Medieval Funerary Rites: Chemical Fingerprints of Frankincense in Southern Belgian Incense Burners

Frankincense, the oleogum resin from Boswellia sp., has been an early luxury good in both Western and Eastern societies and is particularly used in Christian funerary and liturgical rites. The scant grave goods in late medieval burials comprise laterally perforated pottery vessels which are usually...

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Autores principales: Baeten, Jan, Deforce, Koen, Challe, Sophie, De Vos, Dirk, Degryse, Patrick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4229304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25391130
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113142