Archaeometric investigation of Roman tesserae from Herculaneum (Italy) by the combined use of complementary micro-destructive analytical techniques

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2625-2634

  van der Werf, Inez ^a   Mangone, Annarosa ^a   Giannossa, Lorena Carla ^a   Traini, Angela ^a   Laviano, Rocco ^a   Coralini, Antonella ^b   Sabbatini, Luigia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ancient glass; Archaeometry; ICP MS; Mosaic tesserae; Roman; SEM EDS; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349782284     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.07.015     Document Type: Article

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