Cultural assets are all movable and immovable assets that have been the subject of social life in historical periods, have unique scientific and cultural value, and are located above ground, underground or underwater. Today, the fact that most of the analyses conducted to understand the technologies of these assets require sampling and that non-destructive methods that allow analysis without taking samples are costly is a problem for cultural heritage workers. In this study, which was prepared to find solutions to national and international problems, it is aimed to develop a non-destructive, cost-minimizing and easy-to-use analysis method. Since this article aimed to develop methodology, the materials were prepared for preliminary research purposes. Therefore, it was limited to four primary colors. These four primary colors were red and yellow ochre, green earth, Egyptian blue and ultramarine blue. These pigments were used with different binders. The produced paints were photographed in natural and artificial light at different light intensities and brought to a 256 × 256 pixel size, and then trained on support vector machine, convolutional neural network, densely connected convolutional network, residual network 50 and visual geometry group 19 models. It was asked whether the trained VGG19 model could classify the paints used in archaeological and artistic works analyzed with instrumental methods in the literature with their real identities. As a result of the test, the model was able to classify paints in artworks from photographs non-destructively with a 99% success rate, similar to the result of the McNemar test.

Cappadocia region, rock churches, monasteries, houses, underground settlements, valleys and historical and geological formations have unique beauty. The region, which is rich with its cultural assets belongs to Christian culture in Anatolia, is generally known with its rock churches, and is a subject to researches. The purpose of this study is; to understand the wall painting technology of the 19th century church, and to make a comparison with the wall painting materials of the rock churches. The study material is composed of pigments in the wall paintings of the Church of St. Theodoros Trion, which is from the 19th century, and located in Nevşehir. Scanning Electron Microscope and Energy Distributed Spectrometer (SEM-EDX), X-Ray Diffraction Spectrometry (XRD) and Fourier Transformed Infrared Spectrophotometer (FTIR) are used to determine material characterization of pigments. X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (XRF) analysis method was used in the analysis of the soil structure. As a result of analysis of the wall painting, it has been found that the ultramarine pigment is obtained from the lapis lazuli mineral and the covellite mineral of the covellite blue. In red, the red ochre and the caput mortuum pigment in purple color has been found. In the mineral of different pigment species, bauxite mineral belongs to the region have been detected. Green color, it has been determined that it is obtained from the glauconite and celadonite mineral in the region. According to the research carried out in the region in green color, it has been detected that only this pigment species has been used from the 6th century to the 19th century.

Çalışma konumuz, Düzce İli Merkez İlçe Yörükler Köyü Köprübaşı Mevkii’nde 1464 parselde Konuralp Müzesi’nin yaptığı tespit-sondaj kazıları sırasında Roma tabakasında ele geçen ve müzenin kuruluş aşamasında Afyonkarahisar Müzesi’nden gelen taş baltalardan oluşmaktadır. Çalışmada tahribatsız bir yöntem olan Taşınabilir X-Işını Florasans Spekrometresi (P-XRF) ile taş baltaların elementel içeriği incelenmiş ve kullanım alanları tespit edilmiştir. Elde edilen bulgular doğrultusunda Roma katmanında bulunan taş baltaların, erken dönem taş baltalar ile benzer özellik gösterdiği saptanmıştır. Antik kentlerde yapılan kazılarda, prehistorik çağlarda kullanılan taş baltaların ele geçmesi daha evvelden de görülmüştür. Bu türdeki aletler çoğu kazıda ve yüzey araştırmasında bolca ele geçmekte, müzelere satın alma yoluyla da girmektedir.