Investigations of byzantine glass bracelets from nufâru, romania using external PIXE-PIGE methods

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2881-2891

  Bugoi, R ^a   Poll, I ^b   Mânucu Adameşteanu, Gh ^b   Neelmeijer, C ^c   Eder, F ^c,d  

^a HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

^b The Museum of Bucharest city   (Romania)

^c INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d TU WIEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

Byzantine glass; Chemical analysis; Glass bracelets; PIGE; Pigments; PIXE

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARTIFACT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GAMMA RAY RADIATION; GLASS; MATERIAL CULTURE; PIGMENT; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ROMANIA;

EID: 84876424257     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

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