The discovery of anomalously high silver abundances in pottery from early Roman excavation contexts in Jerusalem

Archaeometry

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 377-398

  Adan Bayewitz, D ^a,b   Asaro, F ^b   Giauque, R D ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ceramics; High precision X ray fluorescence analysis; INAA coincidence silver analysis; Instrumental neutron activation analysis; Israel; Jerusalem; Principal component analysis; Roman; Silver

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; CERAMICS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EXCAVATION; SILVER; URBAN AREA; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ISRAEL; ITALY; JERUSALEM [ISRAEL]; LAZIO; MIDDLE EAST; ROMA [LAZIO]; ROME; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33746485125     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2006.00262.x     Document Type: Article

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