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INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY ANALYSES OF ROMAN MILITARY COPPER‐ALLOY ARTEFACTS FROM THE EXCAVATIONS AT MASADA, ISRAEL *
Author(s) -
PONTING M.,
SEGAL I.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
archaeometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.716
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1475-4754
pISSN - 0003-813X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1998.tb00827.x
Subject(s) - inductively coupled plasma , copper alloy , copper , atomic emission spectroscopy , alloy , bronze , excavation , inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy , spectroscopy , archaeology , metallurgy , ancient history , materials science , plasma , physics , history , nuclear physics , quantum mechanics
A selection of Roman military fittings and associated copper‐alloy artefacts was analysed by inductively coupled plasma‐atomic emission spectroscopy. The method used was a variant on those previously published and gives very good precision and accuracy. The Roman metalwork analysed conforms extremely well to similar artefacts analysed from, contemporaneous European sites and suggests, despite the strongly ‘local’ nature of the Judaean legions, a considerable uniformity of alloying practice within the Roman army during the first century AD.