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Chemical composition of ancient ceramics

Also known as CRMC

Three parts of a database provide published and unpublished chemical analysis results of archaeological ceramics.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 p…

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Websitehttp://repository.edition-topoi.org/collection/CRMC
SubjectsHumanities and Social Sciences · Natural Sciences · Engineering Sciences · Humanities · Chemistry · Geosciences (including Geography) · Materials Science and Engineering · Ancient Cultures · Analytical Chemistry, Method Development (Chemistry) · Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Crystallography · Materials Engineering · Sintered Metallic and Ceramic Materials
Last updated2026-09-11

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