Study of some Roman brooches discovered at Tomis - Constanta, by X-ray fluorescence technique

Romanian Reports of Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 557-562

  Ghisa V ^a   Popescu, I V ^b,c   Belc, M ^a   Ene, Antoaneta ^d  

^a OVIDIUS UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

^c VALAHIA UNIVERSITY OF TARGOVISTE   (Romania)

^d DUNAREA DE JOS UNIVERSITY OF GALATI   (Romania)

Author keywords

Archaeological samples; Roman brooches; XRF

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849144613     PISSN: 1221146X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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