Production technology of faience and related early viteous materials /
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Language: English
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School of Archaeology,
c2008.
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Monograph (University of Oxford. School of Archaeology) ;
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Call Number: TP862 .T584
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- List of figures List of tables Preface 1. Introduction 1.1. Experimental procedures 1.2. Terminology 1.3. Outline of monograph contents 2. Glazed Steatite 2.1. Egypt 2.1.1. Historical overview 2.1.2. Methods of glazing and raw materials 2.2. Near East 2.3. Indus Valley 2.3.1. Historical overview 2.3.2. Methods of glazing and raw materials 2.3.3. Steatite "faience" 2.4. Discussion 3. Raw Materials and Fabrication Methods Used in the Production of Faience 3.1. Raw materials 3.1.1. Quartz 3.1.2. Alkali flux 3.1.3. Lime 3.1.4. Colorants 3.1.5. Provenance studies 3.2. Forming methods 3.3. Glazing methods 3.3.1. Macroscopic evidence 3.3.2. Microstructural evidence 3.3.3. Composition profiles 3.3.4. Summary 3.4. Methods of decoration 3.5. Faience variants 4. Faience Production in Egypt 4.1. Historical overview 4.2. Raw materials 4.2.1. Quartz 4.2.2. Alkali flux 4.2.3. Colorants 4.3. Microstructures and glazing methods 4.3.1. Copper colorant 4.3.2. Cobalt colorant 4.3.3. Particulate colorants 4.3.4. Discussion 5. Faience Production in the Near East and the Indus Valley 5.1. Near East 5.1.1. Historical overview 5.1.2. Raw materials - quartz 5.1.3. Raw materials - alkali flux 5.1.4. Raw materials - colorants 5.1.5. Glazing methods 5.2. Indus Valley 5.2.1. Harappan faience 5.2.2. Nausharo faience 6. Faience Production in the Eastern Mediterranean 6.1. Crete and the Greek mainland 6.1.1. Historical overview 6.1.2. Minoan faience 6.1.3. Mycenaean faience 6.2. Cyprus 6.2.1. Chalcolithic period faience 6.2.2. Bronze Age faience 6.3. Rhodes and the Archaic period 7. Faience Production in Northern and Western Europe 7.1. Russia, Slovakia, Poland and Britain 7.1.1. Russia 7.1.2. Slovakia 7.1.3. Poland 7.1.4. Britain 7.2. Italy, France and Switzerland 7.2.1. Early Bronze Age (2100-1700/1650 BC) and Middle Bronze Age 1-2 (1700/1650-1450 BC) 7.2.2. Middle Bronze Age 3 and Recent Bronze Age (1450-1200 BC) 7.2.3. Final Bronze Age (1200-900 BC) 7.2.4. Iron Age (900-450 BC) 7.3. Discussion 8. Production of Egyptian Blue and Green Frits 8.1. Historical overview 8.2. Production of Egyptian blue and green frits 8.2.1. Egyptian blue frit 8.2.2. Egyptian green frit 8.2.3. Colour parameters 8.3. Egyptian blue and green frits from Egypt 8.3.1. Microstructures 8.3.2. Chemical compositions and raw materials 8.3.3. Production centres for Egyptian blue and green frits 8.4. Egyptian blue frit from the Near East 8.4.1. Microstructures 8.4.2. Chemical compositions and raw materials 8.5. Egyptian blue frits from the Aegean 8.5.1. Microstructures 8.5.2. Chemical compositions and raw materials 8.6. Egyptian blue frits from the Roman Empire 8.6.1. Microstructures 8.6.2. Chemical compositions and raw materials 8.6.3. Production centres for Egyptian blue frits 9. Production of Glazed Pottery and Brickwork in the Near East 9.1. Historical overview 9.2. Beginnings of glazed clay ceramics 9.3. Neo-Assyrian - Achaemenid period 9.3.1. Glazed clay ceramics 9.3.2. Glazed quartz-based ceramics 9.4. Seleucid-Sassanian period 10. Conclusions and Future Research 10.1. Technological choices 10.1.1. Quartz 10.1.2. Alkali flux 10.1.3. Colorants 10.1.4. Glazing methods 10.2. Independent invention, technological transfer and trade 10.2.1. Egypt, the Near East and the Indus Valley 10.2.2. Minoan Crete and the Mycenaean mainland 10.2.3. Northern and western Europe 10.3. Future work Appendix A. Strontium, Oxygen and Neodymium Isotope Analysis of Ancient Glass A.l. Strontium isotopes A.2. Oxygen isotopes A.3. Neodymium isotopes A.4. Summary References.