Abstract
The chemical composition of 48 glass finds from Histria and Tomis, Romania, chiefly dated to the 1st–4th c. AD, was determined using prompt gamma activation analysis (PGAA) at the Budapest Neutron Centre (BNC). Most fragments have composition typical for the Roman naturally colored blue-green-yellow (RNCBGY) glass; Mn-colorless, Sb-colorless, and Sb–Mn colorless glass finds were evidenced, too. Several Foy Série 2.1 and Foy Série 3.2 glass fragments, as well as an HIMT and a plant ash glass sample, were identified in the studied assemblage. The archaeological evidence, the glass working waste items, and the samples with compositional patterns suggestive of recycling are proofs of the secondary glass working activities at Tomis during the Early Roman Empire period.
Highlights
Academic Editors: Žiga Šmit and Compositional analyses of archaeological glass finds can provide insights into raw materials and working techniques, demonstrating the skills of our predecessors [1]
This publication reports the composition of 48 glass fragments discovered during archaeological excavations at Histria and Tomis, Romania, mainly dated to the Early
prompt gamma activation analysis (PGAA) data allowed the attribution of the analyzed glass fragments to several well-established glass types from the archaeometric literature: Sb-colorless, Mncolorless, Sb–Mn colorless, and RNCBGY2
Summary
Academic Editors: Žiga Šmit and Compositional analyses of archaeological glass finds can provide insights into raw materials and working techniques, demonstrating the skills of our predecessors [1]. Roman glass is mostly identified as soda–lime–silica glass, typically containing. Flux (the soda component) was introduced in the recipe to allow the melting of the mixture at temperatures attainable in ancient furnaces, while the stabilizer (lime) was needed to make glass stable in the presence of water, as pure soda–silica glass would be soluble in aqueous solutions. Tomis-3 was assigned to the RNCBGY2 group, i.e., it has a composition typical for the Early Roman glass. Both items were made of Sb–Mn colorless glass involving the recycling and mixing of two different chemical types of intentionally decolorized glass. Both fragments are colorless, but Tomis-8 has olive tinges and Tomis-9 has green tinges. But Tomis-8 has olive tinges and Tomis-9 has green tinges Both of them were identified as Mn-colorless glass
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