Roman military copper-alloy artefacts from Israel: Questions of organization and ethnicity

Archaeometry

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 555-571

  Ponting, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brass; Copper alloy; Ethnicity; Fashion; Gamla; Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry; Israel; Manufacture; Masada; Military metalwork; Roman

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; ROMAN ERA;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0036875574     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-4754.t01-1-00086     Document Type: Article

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