Transitions in Islamic plant-ash glass vessels: On-site chemical analyses conducted at the Raya/al-Tur area on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1381-1395

  Kato, Norihiro ^a   Nakai, Izumi ^a   Shindo, Yoko ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b The Research Institute for Islamic Archaeology and Culture   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemical composition; Egypt; Islamic glass; Plant ash glass; Raya; XRF analysis

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHRONOLOGY; GLASS; ISLAMISM; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

EGYPT; SINAI;

VIRIDIPLANTAE;

EID: 77952554004     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.12.042     Document Type: Article

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