A study of glass tesserae from mosaics in the monasteries of daphni and hosios loukas (Greece)

Archaeometry

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 796-815

  Arletti, R ^a   Fiori, C ^b   Vandini, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Byzantine; Electron Microprobe Analysis; Glass; Greece; Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy; Mosaic; X ray Powder Diffraction

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; GLASS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; SPECTROSCOPY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

GREECE;

EID: 77955639975     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2009.00504.x     Document Type: Article

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