p-XRF Data of Hellenistic and Parthian Pottery from the 2023 and 2024 Excavations at Assur

This dataset contains the R-Script of data quality control, data processing and the figures for the p-XRF data collected from pottery excavated in 2023 and 2024 in Assur in the scope of the project New Archaeological Exploration of Assur led by by Prof. Dr. Karen Radner (LMU Munich). The samples were selected in the field by Dr. Jana Richter, Dr. Andrea Squitieri (LMU Munich), Dr. Florian Janoscha Kreppner & Ellen Coster (University of Münster). p-XRF data was handled by Dr. Michaela Schauer (LMU Munich/VIAS: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Institute for Geology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Luisenstr. 37, 80333 Munich, Germany; Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science (VIAS), University of Vienna, Franz-Klein-Gasse 1, 1190 Vienna, Austria; Research Network Human Evolution und Archaeological Sciences (HEAS), University of Vienna, Djerassiplatz 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria), measurements undertaken by Marco Wolf (LMU Munich). Related petrographic analysis was performed by Dr. Silvia Amicone (University of Tübingen).

The dataset is part of the second Exploring Assur publication: Schauer, M., Amicone, S., 2025. Chemical and petrographical analysis of Hellenistic and Parthian pottery from Assur, 2023 and 2024, in: Radner, K., Squitieri, A. (Eds.), Assur 2024: Continuing the excavations in the New Town and other research across the site. Exploring Assur 2. PeWe-Verlag, Gladbeck 2025.