Journal
ARCHAEOMETRY
Volume 53, Issue -, Pages 329-339Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2010.00546.x
Keywords
POTTERY; GLAZES; TIN-OPACIFICATION; BODIES; COLORANTS; IRON; COPPER; COBALT; MANGANESE; CHROMIUM; LEAD ANTIMONATE; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETRY; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; PROTON-INDUCED X-RAY EMISSION; ISLAMIC; EGYPT; IRAN; IRAQ; SYRIA
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During the 1980s, the late Alexander Kaczmarczyk undertook the analysis of some 1200 glazed Islamic ceramics from Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Syria spanning the period from the eighth to the 14th centuries AD, using a combination of XRF for the glazes, and AAS or PIXE for the bodies. The aim of the present paper is, first, to bring to the attention of researchers into Islamic ceramics the fact that these analytical data are available on the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art website, and also that some 400 of the analysed sherds are held in the Research Laboratory. Second, the paper provides a preliminary interpretation of the analytical data in terms of the choice of glaze type (i.e., alkali-lime, lead-alkali and high-lead), tin-opacification, body type (i.e., quartz or stonepaste, calcareous clay, and non-calcareous clay), and colorants.
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