Lead White in Context Across Greco-Roman Sources: The First TheSu XML Annotation Dataset of Arguments and Recipes, with Graph Visualisations and Discussion of their Design
By: Daniele Morrone
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.568 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Page range: 76 - 76
Submitted on: Apr 16, 2026
Accepted on: May 20, 2026
Published on: Jun 16, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
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