High-boron and High-alumina Middle Byzantine (10th–12th Century ce) Glass Bracelets: A Western Anatolian Glass Industry
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- A. Asa Eger, Full Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: The trace element boron is present in most ancient glasses as an impurity, and high boron(=300 ppm) marks raw material sources that are geologically specific and relatively uncommon. Recent analyses of Byzantine glass with high boron contents suggest that glass-making was not limited to the traditional regions of the Levant and Egypt, and a production origin in or near western Anatolia is proposed. Glass bracelets from?i?n al-Tinat in southernTurkey give fresh evidence for the production and circulation of high-boron glasses that closely correlates with object typology. The patterning of findspots suggests that high-boron glass was closely connected to the Byzantine world
High-boron and High-alumina Middle Byzantine (10th–12th Century ce) Glass Bracelets: A Western Anatolian Glass Industry
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Archaeometry 60:2 (2018)
- Language: English
- Date: 2017
- Keywords
- High-boron glass, High-alumina glass, glass bracelets, anatolia, middle byzantine period, ?i?n al-Tinat, chemical composition