Glass mosaic tesserae from Pompeii: An archeometrical investigation

Periodico di Mineralogia

Volumn 75, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 25-38

  Arletti, Rossella ^a   Quartieri, Simona ^b   Vezzalini, Giovanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colorants; EMPA; Glass; Opacifiers; Pompeii; SEM EDS; XRPD

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051790715     PISSN: 03698963     EISSN: 22391002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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