Opacifiers in Late Bronze Age glasses: the use of ToF-SIMS to identify raw ingredients and production techniques

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• 作者：Chloë ; N. Duckworth^a ; ^{chloe.duckworth@nottingham.ac.uk} ; Julian Henderson^a ; ¹ ; ^{julian.henderson@nottingham.ac.uk} ; Frank J.M. Rutten^b ; ^{f.j.m.rutten@mema.keele.ac.uk} ; Kalliopi Nikita^a ; ^{k.nikita@nottingham.ac.uk}
• 关键词：Glass ; ToF-SIMS ; Opacifier ; Late Bronze Age ; Mesopotamia ; Egypt ; Greece ; Provenance ; Production technique
• 刊名：Journal of Archaeological Science
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：July, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：39
• 期：7
• 页码：2143-2152
• 全文大小：2342 K

文摘

Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) is applied to the study of four samples of opaque glass of Late Bronze Age date. The technique is uniquely capable of identifying compositional heterogeneity at a sub-micron resolution within the crystalline opacifiers dispersed through homogeneous glass matrices. It is shown that this provides crucial information on the possible raw ingredients of the opacifying inclusions used, and has the potential for highlighting regional variations in the production technology involved in creating different colours of opaque glass.