Browsing by Author "Dillis, Sarah"

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  • Antimony as a raw material in ancient metal and glass making: provenancing Georgian LBA metallic Sb by isotope analysis 
    Dillis, Sarah; van Ham-Meert, Alicia; Leeming, Peter; Shortland, Andrew J.; Gobejishvili, Gela; Abramishvili, Mikheil; Degryse, Patrick (Taylor & Francis, 2019-11-13)
    Sb was frequently used as a raw material, both in ancient glass-making (as an opacifier and decolouriser) and metallurgy (either as an alloying element or as a pure metal). Despite this ubiquity, antimony production has ...
  • Isotopic evidence for the use of Caucasian antimony in Late Bronze Age glass making 
    Degryse, Patrick; Shortland, Andrew J.; Dillis, Sarah; van Ham-Meert, Alicia; Vanhaecke, Frank; Leeming, Peter (Elsevier, 2020-06-29)
    Antimony (Sb) is considered a rare material in the archaeological record, found only in unusual circumstances. Nevertheless, antimony minerals were an important resource for several millennia, used in metallurgy and to ...
  • A unique recipe for glass beads at Iron Age Sardis 
    van Ham-Meert, Alicia; Dillis, Sarah; Blomme, Annelore; Cahill, Nicholas; Claeys, Philippe; Elsen, Jan; Eremin, Katherine; Gerdes, Axel; Steuwe, Christian; Roeffaers, Maarten; Shortland, Andrew J.; Degryse, Patrick (Elsevier, 2019-06-28)
    In large parts of the Mediterranean recipes for the earliest man-made glass changed from melting mixtures of crushed quartz pebbles and halophytic plant ashes in the Late Bronze Age to the use of quartz sands and mineral ...