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Caterina Greco

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How Many Secret Details Could a Systematic Multi-Analytical Study Reveal About the Mysterious Fresco Trionfo della Morte?

2019

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Petrographic and geochemical characterization of Archaic-Hellenistic tableware production at Solunto, Sicily

2009

A selected assortment of Archaic-Hellenistic tableware samples from Solunto, a Phoenician-Punic site located 20 km east of Palermo (Sicily), has been subjected to thin-section petrography and chemical analysis (XRF). In this settlement several ceramic kilns remained operative over a long time period (7th to 3rd century B.C.). The main goal of this analytical study is to distinguish the ceramics manufactured locally from regional and off-island imports. Analytical results were matched to similar data concerning local natural clay sources and to coeval tableware productions from other sites in the same area. The ceramic pastes used by the ancient craftsmen of Solunto in the case of this class…

PetrographyArcheologySicily Solunto Archaic-Hellenistic Tableware archaeometryEarth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)Period (geology)PotteryArchaeologySettore GEO/09 -Georis. Miner.e Appl.Mineral.-Petrogr. per l'Ambi.ed i B.Cult.GeologyNatural (archaeology)Geoarchaeology
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