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Firing Temperatures and Raw Material Sources of Ancient Hittite Ceramics of Asia Minor KU Leuven
The firing temperature and production technology together with the provenance and source materials of a group of the Domuztepe (Cilicia, Turkey) Late-Hittite ceramics were studied by mineralogical analyses. The mineralogical (presence of basaltic minerals and the formation of forsterite and tridymite as high temperature minerals) results revealed that this group of Late-Hittite ceramics were products of a mixture of local raw materials such as ...
Sr-Nd isotopic analysis of glass from Sagalassos (SW Turkey) KU Leuven
The Nd isotopic composition of an ancient glass is typical of the (heavy) non-quartz fraction in the silica raw material. The Sr isotopic composition is considered typical for the lime component in the raw material. In the case of natron glass, this is mostly attributed to shell or limestone in the silica sand. In this study, 1st to 5th and 6th to 7th century AD glass from Sagalassos is compared to the typical signature of 4th to 8th century AD ...
Pliny the Elder and Sr-Nd isotopes: tracing the provenance of raw materials for Roman glass production KU Leuven
In Roman and Byzantine times, natron glass was traded throughout the known world in the form of chunks. Production centers of such raw glass, active from the 4th to 8th century AD, were identified in Egypt and Syro-Palestine. However, early Roman primary glass units remain unknown from excavation or scientific analysis. The ancient author Pliny described in 70 AD that besides Egyptian and Levantine resources, also raw materials from Italy and ...
The mineralogy and petrography of Low Lands Ware 1 (Roman lower RhineeMeuseeScheldt basin; the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany) KU Leuven Universiteit Gent
Over the last 80 years Belgian, Dutch and German archaeologists working in the lower Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt basin have encountered a Roman pottery group that occurs in large quantities at most Roman sites in the region. Several researchers have separately tried to define this pottery, resulting in different names. Petrographic and geochemical analyses of 100 samples have now shown that the production of this ware predominantly made use of one ...