Chemical and Mineralogical Approaches to the Organization of Late Bronze Age Nuzi Ware Production

Erb‐Satullo, Nathaniel L.; Shortland, Andrew; Eremin, Katherine

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4754.2011.00597.x

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“…In many cases, they can provide useful information on the authenticity of the objects and on the burial environment. As discussed by Bertholon in several studies, 9,11,12 UCI can affect the definition of the original surface. Unalloyed copper inclusions can cause the formation of unalloyed copper as a corrosion/ redeposition reaction, similar to the dezincification phenomenon in a/b brasses.…”

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Mechanism of corrosion due to unalloyed copper inclusion in ancient bronzes

Emami¹,

Bigham²

2013

Surface Engineering

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Ancient bronze objects buried in the soil for a long time corrode because of various environmental conditions. This can also cause different corrosion morphologies. One of the features of ancient bronzes is the presence of unalloyed copper with copper inclusions (UCI); when in the alloying process, the copper-tin alloy did not form properly. Because of the phenomenon of preferential corrosion, the tin content decreases in an environment with low oxygen and high chloride and sulphide content. The results are various corrosion products. A decorative plaque belonging to the National Museum of Iran has been investigated by X-ray diffraction, SEM-EDX and reflected polarised light optical microscopy. The investigations showed that the UCI effect appeared as type B, i.e. with copper sulphide in the metallic core. The presence of UCI (type B) in ancient bronzes proves that the objects corroded after deposition in the soil.

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Mechanism of corrosion due to unalloyed copper inclusion in ancient bronzes

Emami¹,

Bigham²

2013

Surface Engineering

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“…Moreover, petrographic analysis may be performed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) coupled with energy dispersive X‐ray spectrometry (EDS) that, despite a loss of overall information with respect to the OM, allows obtaining the chemical composition of the inclusions, together with the chemical analysis of the clay matrix by spot or small inclusion‐free raster areas examination. Besides the typical operator‐controlled SEM‐EDS application, several computer‐controlled procedures were proposed, mainly for image analysis and automated mineral analysis.…”

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Automated SEM‐EDS pottery classification based on minero‐chemical quantitative parameters: An application on ancient Greek pottery from Adrano (NE Sicily, Italy)

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A new SEM‐EDS procedure for ancient ceramic classification, based on the automated acquisition and the semiautomated processing of multi‐elemental X‐ray maps, is described. Based on the detection of each aplastic inclusion, the procedure allows to simultaneously obtain a quantitative evaluation of both the inclusion mineral–chemical composition and the ceramic matrix chemical composition. The two data sets can individually or jointly be subjected to statistical methods. The proposed protocol was applied on a set of 22 samples of black glaze pottery from Adrano (north‐eastern Sicily), Hellenistic age (4th to 2nd centuries B.C.). Two main groups emerged from the application of the procedure, mainly distinguished for their quartz–feldspars versus calcium–aluminosilicate relative abundance as the inclusion mineral–chemical composition is concerned and for their matrix SiO2 versus CaO. The classification based on the inclusion mineral–chemical data obtained with the proposed method mirrors the results from the traditional OM observation, but when the two data sets are simultaneously considered, a subtler differentiation is observed with the separation of one of the groups in two subgroups, allowing to refine the partition.

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Materials Analysis of Ceramics

Erb‐Satullo¹

2023

Handbook of Archaeological Sciences

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Chemical and Mineralogical Approaches to the Organization of Late Bronze Age Nuzi Ware Production

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

Mechanism of corrosion due to unalloyed copper inclusion in ancient bronzes

Mechanism of corrosion due to unalloyed copper inclusion in ancient bronzes

Automated SEM‐EDS pottery classification based on minero‐chemical quantitative parameters: An application on ancient Greek pottery from Adrano (NE Sicily, Italy)

Materials Analysis of Ceramics

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