Chemical characterisation of glass mosaic tesserae from sixth-century Sagalassos (south-west Turkey): Chronology and production techniques

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1480-1492

  Schibille, Nadine ^a   Degryse, Patrick ^b   Corremans, Markku ^b   Specht, Christian G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Antimony; Byzantine; Colourants; Glass tesserae; Opacifiers; Roman

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHRONOLOGY; COLOR; DATING METHOD; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLASS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LEAD; ROMAN ERA; TESSERA;

BURDUR [TURKEY]; SAGALASSOS; TURKEY;

EID: 84857113236     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2012.01.020     Document Type: Article

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