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LESLIE, Karen A. ; FREESTONE, Ian C. ; LOWRY, David ; THIRLWALL, Matthew
The Provenance and Technology of Near Eastern Glass: Oxygen Isotopes by Laser Fluorination as a Complement to Strontium
Archaeometry 48/2
University of Oxford, 2006, p. 253-270
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291475-4754/issues

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• Preliminary remarks:
– isotopes of strontium (87Sr/86Sr) - derived from the lime component of glass,
– oxygen isotope (δ18O) - derived primarily from silica source.

• Materials analysed:
– all glasses analysed are soda-lime-silica composition.

– low-magnesia or natron-based glasses (4th-9th centuries A.D.):
- Bet Eliʿezer (6th-8th centuries): primary workshop,
- Bet Shean (6th-7th centuries): secondary workshop,
- Tel el-Ashmunein (8th-9th centuries): secondary workshop,
- Carthage (4th-6th centuries): secondary workshop debris ?

– high-magnesia or plant-ash-based glasses (9th-13th centuries A.D.):
- Tyre (10th-12th centuries): primary workshop,
- Banias (10th/11th-13th centuries): secondary workshop,
- Raʾs al-Hadd (10th-13th centuries): consumer site, surface finds.

• Isotopic composition and the origins of the glasses:
– strontium isotopes reflect the geo-environment of lime source:
- natron glasses: Holocene shell or inland limestone (from the sand);
- plant-ash glasses: limestone (from soils parental to the plants that were ashed to make the glass).
– oxygen isotopes:
- less effective at discriminating sites than strontium isotopes,
- oxygen isotope measurements as an extremely effective and economic way of confirming the presence of special raw material (as chert) in glass.

• Choice of analysis methods: isotopic analysis or trace element analysis, as a primary method for the investigation of glass distribution - preliminary observations:
– isotopic data more clearly indicates regional geochemical signatures, and the use of unusual raw materials,
– elemental analysis is likely to offer the way forward when discriminating between the products of workshops located in the same region and using separate, but geologically related, materials.

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