Video 15

Sampling the core of a large bronze under safelight for OSL dating at the C2RMF, Paris. The core has been sampled in two different locations: the feet and the arms. For each, several samples were taken at various distances from the bronze wall in order to check the possible effects of an airport X-ray scan during the bronze’s transportation from Sana’a to Paris. Bronze Statue of Hawtar’athat, Yemen, 1st millennium BCE, H. 140 cm (National Museum of Sana’a, inv. YM 23206). See .