HONEY, William Bowyer ; COX, Henry Edward ; BANNISTER, F.A. ; JOPE Edward Martyn

MOND, Robert L. ; MYERS, Olivier H.

Temples of Armant: A Preliminary Survey

The Egypt Exploration Society, London, 1940, p. 198-200

fouilles excavations prospection survey

[201, 1300]

perle bead

mosaïqué mosaic

• Archaeological context: part of a town discovered in the ruins of a temple built and developed from the Pharaonic to the Roman Period [cf. Harden 1940 - same volume].

• Technical reports on some glass objects found during the excavations at Ermant:
– millefiori bead: Roman period or later (before A.D. 1000);
– handle or knob: X-ray and chemical analyses: SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3, CuO, MnO, CaO, MgO, Na2O, K2O.
– imitation beryl bead: contains a small percentage of lead oxide.

• Materials concerned with glass making (secondary workshop):
– slag with lumps of green glass adhered;
– glass frit (white colour): sodium-calcium glass;
– fragments of crucibles encrusted with opaque red glass frit: sodium-calcium glass with mixture of cuprous oxide and lead oxide;
– fragments of crucibles encrusted with white crystals of calcium sulphate.

analyses chimiques chemical analyses bloc de verre brut lump of raw glass creuset crucible déchets de verre glass waste scories slags

habitat
settlement  contexte urbain
urban context production et commerce
production and commerce  atelier
workshop

Egypte Egypt

Ermant Armant

consommation production