Life Sciences and cultural heritage Figure 1. (a) Drinking vessel in shape of Bes head; El-Fayūm Oasis, Egypt; Ptolemaic-Roman period (4th century BCE −3rd century CE), (courtesy of the Tampa Museum of Art, Florida). (b) optical image of the sample collected from the Bes vessel. (c) optical image of sample TMA2. (d)1: average spectrum of the region in the red frame of panel c; 2: average spectrum of the region in the green frames in panel c, the green arrows indicate the pale orange areas were the most intense spectra were collected; 3: average spectrum of sample TMA1; 4: subtraction spectrum obtained by subtracting 2–3; 5: Syrian rue seeds hydroalcoholic extract. (e) Fingerprint region of spectrum 4 and 5 compared with a harmaline reference spectrum (6). (f) HRMS spectrum and structure of harmaline. D. Tanasi1, B. F. van Oppen de Ruiter2, F. Florian3, R. Pavlovic4,5, L. M. Chiesa4 I. Fochi6, C. Stani7, L. Vaccari8, D. Chaput9, G. Samorini10, A. Pallavicini3 S. Semeraro11, A. S. Gaetano11, S. Licen11, P. Barbieri11, Enrico Greco11 1 Department of History, University of South Florida, 4202 E Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL 33620, US. 2 Tampa Museum of Art, 120 W Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa, FL 33602, US 3 Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, via Licio Giorgieri 5, Trieste 34127, Italy 4 Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Milan, via dell’Università 6 Lodi 26900, Italy 5 ProMeFa, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, via dell’Olgettina 60, Milan 20132, Italy 6 Thermo Fisher Scientific S.p.A., Rodano, Milan 20090, Italy 7 CERIC-ERIC, S. S. 14 - km 163,5 in AREA Science Park, Basovizza, Trieste 34149, Italy 8 Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., S.S. 14 - km 163,5 in AREA Science Park, Basovizza Trieste 34149, Italy 9 Department Molecular Biosciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA 10 Independent Researcher, Bologna, Italy 11 Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Trieste, via Licio Giorgieri 1 Trieste 34127, Italy e-mail: enrico.greco@units.it Acknowledgments We acknowledge CERIC-ERIC for the access to Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste via beamtime no. 20225135 and we thank the CH-ERIC Project, CERIC-ERIC for Cultural Heritage Research, for the support. Original paper Tanasi, D. et al. Multianalytical investigation reveals psychotropic substances in a ptolemaic Egyptian vase. Sci Rep 14, 27891 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78721-8. Fig. 1 Elettra Highlights 2024–2025 57
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