Chemical composition characterization of ancient glass finds from Troesmis—Turcoaia, Romania

This paper reports and discusses the chemical composition of 20 glass fragments discovered during the 2012 archeological survey at Troesmis (Turcoaia, Tulcea county, Romania) and dated to the Roman and the Byzantine/Early Medieval periods. The data were obtained by two external Ion beam analysis (IB...

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Published in:Archaeological and anthropological sciences 2018-04, Vol.10 (3), p.571-586
Main Authors: Bugoi, Roxana, Alexandrescu, Cristina-Georgeta, Panaite, Adriana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropology
Archaeology
Chemical composition
Chemistry/Food Science
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Emissions
Fragments
Gamma rays
Geography
Life Sciences
Original Paper
Raw materials
Recycling
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Summary:This paper reports and discusses the chemical composition of 20 glass fragments discovered during the 2012 archeological survey at Troesmis (Turcoaia, Tulcea county, Romania) and dated to the Roman and the Byzantine/Early Medieval periods. The data were obtained by two external Ion beam analysis (IBA) methods—namely Particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) and Particle-induced gamma-ray emission (PIGE)—and they were compared to the recognized compositional glass groups from the Mediterranean region during the first millennium AD. The Troesmis assemblage turned out to contain samples belonging to several distinct categories of ancient glass, obtained from different raw materials and manufacturing procedures. Some of the analyzed vitreous finds from Troesmis were the result of glass recycling, while others were identified as deriving from Roman glass vessels imported from the Levantine or Egyptian shores of the Mediterranean. This archeometric study brings additional arguments for the long-range commercial exchanges during the Roman period.
ISSN:1866-9557
1866-9565
DOI:10.1007/s12520-016-0372-6