A Phoenician shipwreck dated to 400 B.C. has paint layers on the wooden planks. Five samples were taken from different points for analysis of the binding medium using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. The results suggest that the painting medium was esparto wax mixed with resin, and that an encaustic technique was used.
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