Irene Pamer

Irene Pamer's name is attached to the scientific testing of the Alexander Malios collection. She wrote the "Archaeometric Contribution" to Alexander Malios Collection, Volume 1: Cypriot Antiquities (Leipzig: AMRICHA, 2023), edited by Elena Poyiadji-Richter, and the catalogue credits its photographs to her and Alexander Gatzsche¹. The photographs carry the AMRICHA credit; the collection is that of Alexander Malios¹.

Her essay sorts the work on selected objects into three kinds: analysis of materials, documentation of manufacture and surface, and study of condition, reworking and authenticity¹. Tiny samples from an earring (cat. 319) showed a filler of lime or limestone, and UV luminescence suggested an organic binder. Multispectral imaging of a horse-and-rider figurine (cat. 189) showed two turquoise pigments, and a historical photograph taken before restoration shows breaks and a missing mouth and harness, so the essay says the stylistic authenticity of those parts can be questioned¹.

A copper oxhide ingot (cat. 113) was sampled by drilling 0.18 g from its core. The sample was prepared at the German Mining Museum in Bochum, measured at Goethe University Frankfurt and evaluated in Leipzig against the Oxford lead isotope database, and it relates to the Apliki cluster¹. Reflectance transformation imaging was used on a bowl (cat. 226) and on silver plaques (cat. 229-230). Structured-light 3D imaging showed that two lamps came from one mould and traced the mould pairs behind a group of figures (cat. 211), and X-rays covered four objects. Thermoluminescence dated cat. 161 to about 2700 years, give or take 20, and cat. 175 to between 1800 and 2900 years; both were judged ancient¹. She states that decisions on the objects were taken as a team, under current conservation ethics¹. No other publication by her is recorded.