Neutron Activation Analysis of Some Ancient Glasses From Bohemia

Frána, J.; Maštalka, A.; Venclová, Natalie

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4754.1987.tb00399.x

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“…1 The best results are obtained through the analysis of several elements. Owing to its flexible network structure, glass can include more than the half of the elements of the Periodic Table . Therefore many kinds of techniques have been used to analyze glass composition, including wet chemical analysis, neutron activation analysis, 2,3 atomic absorption spectrometry, 4 inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry 5 and x-ray fluorescence spectrometry. 6 The analytical methods used in this study, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) using both wavelength-dispersive (WDS) and energy-dispersive (EDS) spectrometers and proton induced x-ray emission (PIXE), are based on the detection of x-rays.…”

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Accuracy, precision and detection limits of SEM-WDS, SEM-EDS and PIXE in the multi-elemental analysis of medieval glass

Kuisma-Kursula

2000

X-Ray Spectrom.

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Accuracy, precision and detection limits of measurements of trace elements of potash, soda and lead reference glasses by wavelength-dispersive spectrometry (WDS) were compared with those by proton induced x-ray emission (PIXE). Accuracy and precision of measurements of major, minor and trace elements in lead glass standard by WDS were compared with those by energy-dispersive spectrometry (EDS). The homogeneity of reference glasses and the effect of spot size of the electron beam on the accuracy and precision were studied. The effects of aluminum pinhole, Kapton foil and zinc foil absorbers on the detection of manganese, iron, arsenic, rubidium, strontium, zirconium and barium in lead glass by the PIXE were investigated. Copyright

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Accuracy, precision and detection limits of SEM-WDS, SEM-EDS and PIXE in the multi-elemental analysis of medieval glass

Kuisma-Kursula

2000

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“…Not all Iron Age periods and regions of Europe are equally represented in scientific publications. While some older data covering the period of the early Iron Age exist for central and southern Europe [88,89], in the last two decades, the focus has mostly been on the Mediterranean part of Europe. In terms of the late Iron Age in continental Europe, most research on glass is conducted in the scope of Celtic studies [27,58,59,100,101].…”

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“…%) lower than HMG [37,38]. Although this group has only recently been formally defined, the first mentions of similar Iron Age glass with high MgO and low K 2 O content from the territory of Greece, Hungary, former Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia can be found in works by Henderson [87], Frána [88] and Braun [89]. There is no firm consensus on which type of flux was used in the production of HMLK glass, with both natron and plant ash being proposed based on the Al 2 O 3 , CaO, and MgO values; this is, in part, related to the glass colour [37].…”

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Known Glass Compositions in Iron Age Europe—Current Synthesis and Emerging Questions

Lončarić

Costa

2023

Heritage

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Ancient glass has been extensively studied from a technological and raw material provenance perspective since the middle of the 20th century. With the rising applications of analytical techniques in the field of Heritage Studies, the last two decades saw an exponential increase in publications on ancient and historical glass technology from around the globe. Given the amount of works on glass chemical composition, it is surprising to note that the long-held production model for Iron Age glasses found in Europe has only recently been challenged by the publication of uncharacteristic glass compositions. Traditionally, LBA glass industries based on plant-ash fluxes/HMG (Egypt and the Levant) and mixed-alkali fluxes/LMHK (Italy) are thought to be supplanted by natron-fluxed/LMG production operating in Egypt and the Levant since around the 9th century BCE. Recently, however, arguments have been put forth for a more diversified network of glassmaking traditions, including small-scale autonomous European workshops. This article reviews the current state of research into Iron Age (1st millennium BCE) glasses in Europe by examining the available published data on glass compositions to critically assess some practical and theoretical issues stemming from this heterogenous field of research. Key questions are addressed, and future lanes of research are proposed.

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“…NAA (Neutron Activation Analysis) has been employed in Czech glass research at the Nuclear Physics Institute of The Czech Academy of Sciences in Řež near Prague since the 1980s (Frána -Maštalka 1984;1990;Frána -Maštalka -Venclová 1987;Frána 2005;Venclová et al 2009;Březinová et al 2013).…”

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Hellenistic mosaic glass vessels in Bohemia and Moravia

Venclová¹,

Hulı́nský²,

Jonášová³

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Imported artefacts from the Late La Tène period also include mosaic glass vessels produced using millefiori, reticella and ribbon mosaic glass techniques. The artefacts are part of the assemblages from the oppida of Stradonice and Staré Hradisko and from the Jičina-Požaha hillfort of the Púchov culture. Their origin can be traced to a Hellenistic workshop(s) in the eastern Mediterranean that was probably in operation in the second and first centuries BC. According to their chemical composition determined by means of SEM-EDS, NAA and LA-ICP-MS, the chemical type of glass of the mosaic vessels is the same as the glass used to make La Tène ring ornaments – soda-lime natron glass.

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Neutron Activation Analysis of Some Ancient Glasses From Bohemia

Abstract: Figure 3Prague. Eye bead with prunts (yellow with blue-white eyes and yellow prunts). Vicenice. National museum,

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Accuracy, precision and detection limits of SEM-WDS, SEM-EDS and PIXE in the multi-elemental analysis of medieval glass

Accuracy, precision and detection limits of SEM-WDS, SEM-EDS and PIXE in the multi-elemental analysis of medieval glass

Known Glass Compositions in Iron Age Europe—Current Synthesis and Emerging Questions

Hellenistic mosaic glass vessels in Bohemia and Moravia

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