Chemical composition of ancient ceramics

Three parts of a database provide published and unpublished chemical analysis results of archaeological ceramics. These are the results of forty years of applying WD-XRF and other mineralogical and physical laboratory methods to the analysis of sherds from excavations and museums. Drawing on some 30,000 analyses from research projects in Europe, Turkey, the near East, and Sudan, the part published here covers the results of three long-term projects: Early pottery in Thessaly, Greece (1,305 records), Firmalampen and other Roman lamps (1,666 records), and Roman and other pottery produced in Central Europe (4,043 records). This collated information provides an opportunity to work directly on published and unpublished data. These can be used as chemical reference groups for comparison for fine ware classification and in provenance studies.

该数据库分为三个部分，分别提供了已发表和未发表的考古陶瓷化学分析结果。这些结果源于四十年来对挖掘和博物馆中陶片进行WD-XRF及其他矿物学和物理实验室方法分析的研究成果。依托约30,000份来自欧洲、土耳其、近东和苏丹的研究项目分析数据，本部分所发布的内容涵盖了三个长期项目的研究成果：希腊色萨利地区的早期陶器（1,305条记录）、法尔马兰彭及其他罗马灯具（1,666条记录）以及在中欧生产的罗马及其他陶器（4,043条记录）。这些汇总的信息为直接处理已发表和未发表的数据提供了可能。这些数据可用作精细陶瓷分类的化学参考组，并在溯源研究中进行比较。