AIC's 47th Annual Meeting

The present study focuses on black resin's composition, beginning and uses. ‏Black resin was used to cover funerary furniture like coffins, shabti statues and boxes, stelae, canopic chests, human and animal statues,‏ and statue bases.  The study utilized gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) to analyze black resin.Black resin is composed of natural resins like mastic, colophony, beeswax, bitumen, and an unknown compound. Natural resin is reported to contain essential oil. Some inscriptions on the tomb of Thebes in Egypt named it sntr , and mastic resin was of high value in Ancient Egypt. Black resin had anti-fungi and antibacterial properties, as well as insect repellents. The sample was taken from a coffin dating back to the Late period to analysis it to know it's composition to choose the best material for consolidation. The coffin, under investigation, was covered internally with a layer of black resin.