Abstract
Chemical analysis by portable X-Ray fluorescence (pXRF) was carried out in the field on contextualised archaeological material excavated at the site of Amarna, which cannot be exported from Egypt for analysis. In addition, glass and other vitreous materials from the same site, but without a more precise archaeological context, were analysed in the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, Berlin.
The data presented here was obtained in order to understand how cobalt ore from various sub-sources was used in the known workshop sites at Amarna.
Description
Chemical analysis by portable X-Ray fluorescence (pXRF) was carried out in the field on contextualised archaeological material excavated at the site of Amarna, which cannot be exported from Egypt for analysis. In addition, glass and other vitreous materials from the same site, but without a more precise archaeological context, were analysed in the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, Berlin. The data presented here was obtained in order to understand how cobalt ore from various sub-sources was used in the known workshop sites at Amarna.
Further information
see Hodgkinson, Anna K.; Röhrs, Stefan; Müller, Katharina; Reiche, Ina 2019. The use of Cobalt in 18th Dynasty Blue Glass from Amarna: the results from an on-site analysis using portable XRF technology, STAR: Science & Technology of Archaeological Research for the results of the study for which the data was collected.
Research Group
Anna K. Hodgkinson, Stefan Röhrs, Katharina Müller, Ina Reiche
