The burial assemblage of Kha and Merit discovered in 1906 and now preserved at the Museo Egizio in Turin (Italy) constitutes the most abundant, complete, and well-preserved non-royal Egyptian burial assemblage ever found. The discoverer of the tomb and director of Museo Egizio, Ernesto Schiaparelli, limited investigations to a few non-unique items, leaving most of the assemblage untouched. His decision has enabled contemporary scholars to study such exceptional archaeological finding with non-invasive approaches that could not be foreseen at the time. Here we show that the volatile compounds emitted by organic materials contained in vessels can be analyzed and detected directly in museums by a transportable mass spectrometer (selected-ion flow-tube mass spectrometry, SIFT-MS). The interpretation of the mass spectrometric data, supported by statistical data analysis, shed new light on the chemical nature of the organic materials preserved in 50 vessels of the Museo Egizio in a completely non-destructive way.

Our study proves the reliability of SIFT-MS as a fast-screening method for archaeometric investigations directly in museum, providing the unique possibility to complement, confirm and extend the archaeological research on the use and purpose of archaeological vessels and jars.

1906 年发现的 Kha 和 Merit 墓葬组合现在保存在都灵（意大利）的 Museo Egizio 博物馆，是迄今为止发现的最丰富、完整和保存完好的非皇家埃及墓葬组合。坟墓的发现者和埃吉齐奥博物馆的馆长埃内斯托·夏帕雷利（Ernesto Schiaparelli）将调查限制在一些非独特的物品上，大部分组合都没有受到影响。他的决定使当代学者能够以当时无法预见的非侵入性方法研究这种特殊的考古发现。在这里，我们展示了容器中有机材料排放的挥发性化合物可以通过便携式质谱仪（选择离子流管质谱仪，SIFT-MS）直接在博物馆中进行分析和检测。质谱数据的解释，

我们的研究证明了 SIFT-MS 作为直接在博物馆进行考古调查的快速筛选方法的可靠性，为补充、确认和扩展关于考古容器和罐子的用途和用途的考古研究提供了独特的可能性。