A provenance study of the gilgamesh fragment from megiddo

Archaeometry

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 763-773

  Goren, Y ^a   Mommsen, H ^b   Finkelstein, I ^a   Na'aman, N ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BRONZE AGE; CLAY; MINERALOGY;

ISRAEL;

EID: 77955259940     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2008.00437.x     Document Type: Article

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