Characterization of pottery from Republic of Macedonia II. Raman and infrared analyses of glazed pottery finds from Skopsko Kale

Raškovska, Aleksandra; Minčeva-Šukarova, Biljana; Grupče, Orhideja; Colomban, Philippe

doi:10.1002/jrs.2463

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“…The results of this study correlate with those of a previous study carried out on the 12th-14th century Byzantine glazes from Skopje and Prilep in the Republic of Macedonia, with Ip values below 0.5 and ∼50 wt% PbO contents (Tanevska et al 2009). Similar results were also reported for another set of 13th-14th century Byzantine glazes from Skopje (Raskovska et al 2010), 12th-13th century Byzantine glazes from Serbia (Holclajtner-Antunovic et al 2012) and a group of 6th-11th century Byzantine glazes from Ephesus in Turkey (Colomban et al 2006).…”

Section: The Composition Of the Glazessupporting

confidence: 82%

“…Similar results were also reported for another set of 13th–14th century Byzantine glazes from Skopje (Raskovska et al . ), 12th–13th century Byzantine glazes from Serbia (Holclajtner‐Antunovic et al . ) and a group of 6th–11th century Byzantine glazes from Ephesus in Turkey (Colomban et al .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Determination of the pottery production centres in the Byzantine Empire has been the primary focus of archaeometric research until now, since these centres are as yet ill-defined due to the absence of literary sources and incomplete archaeological evidence (e.g., Megaw et al 2003;Waksman and François 2004-5;Sauer and Waksman 2005;Waksman and Von Wartburg 2006;Waksman and Romanchuk 2007;Waksman et al , 2009Waksman and Teslenko 2010;Damjanovic et al 2011). Furthermore, the production technology of Byzantine pottery has been studied to a lesser extent when compared to provenance studies (e.g., Demirci et al 2004;Tanevska et al 2009;Charalambous et al 2010;Raskovska et al 2010;Holclajtner-Antunovic et al 2012). Consequently, technological aspects and raw material characteristics of Zeuxippus Ware related pottery from Kuşadası Kadıkalesi/Anaia site in western Anatolia were investigated in this study.…”

Section: Introduction and Historical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Colouring Agents in the Pottery Glazes of Western Anatolia: New Evidence for the Use of Naples Yellow Pigment Variations During The Late Byzantine Period

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A group of the late 12th–13th century Byzantine pottery glazes, mostly related to Zeuxippus Ware Type pottery from the Kuşadası Kadıkalesi/Anaia site in western Anatolia, was characterized non‐destructively using Raman spectrometry. SEM–EDX was also used complementarily for the glaze characterization. The nature and composition of the glazes, firing conditions, aspects of colour formation and pigments used were discussed. The glazes were found to be lead‐rich silicates, fired close to 700°C on the basis of the Si–O stretching peak maxima of the Raman spectra recorded at ∼920–980 cm–1, as also confirmed by SEM–EDX analysis. The polymerization index values calculated are between approximately 0.05 and 0.1. The use of biscuit‐fired bodies prior to glaze application was suggested based on the results of SEM–EDX analysis. In particular, the detection of Naples yellow pigment variations on a locally produced pottery sample is quite significant, since the use of this type of pigment has hardly ever been reported between the Roman period and the Renaissance.

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Section: The Composition Of the Glazessupporting

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Section: Introduction and Historical Backgroundmentioning

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“…The blue and green parts of the decorative layers gave no significant Raman peaks of pigments, and only quartz and other phases have been identified (Raškovska et al . 2009).…”

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A Micro‐raman and Internal Microstratigraphic Study of Ceramic Sherds From the Kilns of the Medici Castle at Cafaggiolo*

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Nine representative sherds from the old (14th-16th century) kilns at the Castle of Cafaggiolo in Tuscany have been analysed by means of internal microstratigraphic analyses and micro-Raman spectroscopy and classified as follows: six engobed and glazed fragments, of which three are covered with an opaque white, decorated layer, one is marbleized, and two are engobed. The surface of the two engobed sherds, fragments of unfinished products, indicates that at least two firing processes were used. Two samples show characteristics of Byzantine pottery, and three of them can be classified as Islamic ware or maiolica, whilst the other one displays intermediate characteristics. The variety of ceramic wares indicates the presence of craftsmen with differing expertise, and suggests that part of their work was dedicated to experimentation on new ceramic production techniques.

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“…It can be considered as a fingerprint technique since the materials are identified by comparing their characteristic vibrational spectra with those in a database. In the case of ceramics, the Raman analysis is mainly aimed at investigating raw materials and production procedures in order to study the technological choices and the cultural models within the same context, as well as contaminations and circulations among different cultural groups [71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78]. The huge development of the Raman spectrometry in the study of glass, glazes, and enamels relies on the possibility to use the SiO 4 tetrahedron bands as fingerprint of the glass composition, structure, and processing temperature.…”

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Breaking Preconceptions: Thin Section Petrography For Ceramic Glaze Microstructures

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During the last thirty years, microstructural and technological studies on ceramic glazes have been essentially carried out through the use of Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) combined with energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX). On the contrary, optical microscopy (OM) has been considered of limited use in solving the very complex and fine-scale microstructures associated with ceramic glazes. As the crystallites formed inside glazes are sub- and micrometric, a common misconception is that it is not possible to study them by OM. This is probably one of the reasons why there are no available articles and textbooks and even no visual resources for describing and characterizing the micro-crystallites formed in glaze matrices. A thin section petrography (TSP) for ceramic glaze microstructures does not exist yet, neither as a field of study nor conceptually. In the present contribution, we intend to show new developments in the field of ceramic glaze petrography, highlighting the potential of OM in the microstructural studies of ceramic glazes using petrographic thin sections. The outcomes not only stress the pivotal role of thin section petrography for the study of glaze microstructures but also show that this step should not be bypassed to achieve reliable readings of the glaze microstructures and sound interpretations of the technological procedures. We suggest the adoption by the scientific community of an alternative vision on glaze microstructures to turn thin section petrography for glaze microstructures into a new specialized petrographic discipline. Such an approach, if intensively developed, has the potential to reduce the time and costs of scientific investigations in this specific domain. In fact, it can provide key reference data for the identification of the crystallites in ceramic glazes, avoiding the repetition of exhaustive protocols of expensive integrated analyses.

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Characterization of pottery from Republic of Macedonia II. Raman and infrared analyses of glazed pottery finds from Skopsko Kale

Cited by 38 publications

References 23 publications

Colouring Agents in the Pottery Glazes of Western Anatolia: New Evidence for the Use of Naples Yellow Pigment Variations During The Late Byzantine Period

Colouring Agents in the Pottery Glazes of Western Anatolia: New Evidence for the Use of Naples Yellow Pigment Variations During The Late Byzantine Period

A Micro‐raman and Internal Microstratigraphic Study of Ceramic Sherds From the Kilns of the Medici Castle at Cafaggiolo*

Breaking Preconceptions: Thin Section Petrography For Ceramic Glaze Microstructures

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