Analysis of first millennium BC glass vessels and beads from the Pichvnari necropolis, Georgia

Archaeometry

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 947-965

  Shortland, A J ^a   Schroeder, H ^b  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beads; Colchis; Core formed vessels; Georgia; Glass; Graeco roman

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GLASS; VESSEL;

BLACK SEA;

EID: 77958459432     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2008.00443.x     Document Type: Article

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