Open AccessCorpus Asher-Greve. Dealing with "Data form the Past"
Author(s) -
Nicole Gäumann
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
baf online - proceedings of the berner altorientalisches forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2504-2076
DOI - 10.22012/baf.2017.06
Subject(s) - mesopotamia , typology , provenance , composition (language) , theme (computing) , interpretation (philosophy) , history , archaeology , geology , art , literature , geochemistry , linguistics , philosophy , computer science , operating system
SNF-Project (1.722-0.83): Naturwissenschaftliche und typologische Untersuchungen an Rollsiegeln.
When? 1983-1986
Who? Dr. Julia Asher-Greve and Prof. Dr. Willem Stern, University of Basel
Material? 1017 cylinder seals from Mesopotamia and neighbouring regions covering all periods from Uruk to Achaemenid period.
What?
XRD (X-ray diffraction) -> mineralogical composition
EDXRF (energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence) -> chemical composition
Iconographical typology
Project couldn’t be brought to an end, data not interpreted
PhD-Project based on the corpus and analyses of the project Asher-Greve
When? 2017-2020 (?)
Who? Nicole Gäumann
Material? Same
What?
Interpretation of XRD- and EDXRF from previous project
Further analyses on existing powder samples (?)
Typology
Bringing together the results of the material analyses and the archaeological data, the material ought to be interpreted in terms of connections between material, colour, dating, provenance, theme, owner…