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List of figures | p. 11 |
List of tables | p. 13 |
Preface | p. 15 |
Introduction | p. 17 |
Experimental procedures | p. 19 |
Terminology | p. 21 |
Outline of monograph contents | p. 22 |
Glazed Steatite | p. 23 |
Egypt | p. 23 |
Historical overview | p. 23 |
Methods of glazing and raw materials | p. 24 |
Near East | p. 29 |
Indus Valley | p. 30 |
Historical overview | p. 30 |
Methods of glazing and raw materials | p. 31 |
Steatite "faience" | p. 34 |
Discussion | p. 35 |
Raw Materials and Fabrication Methods Used in the Production of Faience | p. 37 |
Raw materials | p. 37 |
Quartz | p. 37 |
Alkali flux | p. 38 |
Lime | p. 43 |
Colorants | p. 43 |
Provenance studies | p. 45 |
Forming methods | p. 46 |
Glazing methods | p. 47 |
Macroscopic evidence | p. 49 |
Microstructural evidence | p. 49 |
Composition profiles | p. 51 |
Summary | p. 54 |
Methods of decoration | p. 54 |
Faience variants | p. 55 |
Faience Production in Egypt | p. 57 |
Historical overview | p. 58 |
Raw materials | p. 60 |
Quartz | p. 60 |
Alkali flux | p. 66 |
Colorants | p. 72 |
Microstructures and glazing methods | p. 79 |
Copper colorant | p. 80 |
Cobalt colorant | p. 85 |
Particulate colorants | p. 86 |
Discussion | p. 90 |
Faience Production in the Near East and the Indus Valley | p. 93 |
Near East | p. 93 |
Historical overview | p. 94 |
Raw materials - quartz | p. 95 |
Raw materials - alkali flux | p. 95 |
Raw materials - colorants | p. 97 |
Glazing methods | p. 102 |
Indus Valley | p. 104 |
Harappan faience | p. 104 |
Nausharo faience | p. 107 |
Faience Production in the Eastern Mediterranean | p. 111 |
Crete and the Greek mainland | p. 111 |
Historical overview | p. 111 |
Minoan faience | p. 112 |
Mycenaean faience | p. 121 |
Cyprus | p. 125 |
Chalcolithic period faience | p. 125 |
Bronze Age faience | p. 126 |
Rhodes and the Archaic period | p. 127 |
Faience Production in Northern and Western Europe | p. 129 |
Russia, Slovakia, Poland and Britain | p. 129 |
Russia | p. 129 |
Slovakia | p. 132 |
Poland | p. 134 |
Britain | p. 135 |
Italy, France and Switzerland | p. 136 |
Early Bronze Age (2100-1700/1650 BC) and Middle Bronze Age 1-2 (1700/1650-1450 BC) | p. 138 |
Middle Bronze Age 3 and Recent Bronze Age (1450-1200 BC) | p. 140 |
Final Bronze Age (1200-900 BC) | p. 141 |
Iron Age (900-450 BC) | p. 144 |
Discussion | p. 145 |
Production of Egyptian Blue and Green Frits | p. 147 |
Historical overview | p. 148 |
Production of Egyptian blue and green frits | p. 150 |
Egyptian blue frit | p. 150 |
Egyptian green frit | p. 153 |
Colour parameters | p. 153 |
Egyptian blue and green frits from Egypt | p. 154 |
Microstructures | p. 155 |
Chemical compositions and raw materials | p. 158 |
Production centres for Egyptian blue and green frits | p. 168 |
Egyptian blue frit from the Near East | p. 168 |
Microstructures | p. 170 |
Chemical compositions and raw materials | p. 171 |
Egyptian blue frits from the Aegean | p. 172 |
Microstructures | p. 174 |
Chemical compositions and raw materials | p. 175 |
Egyptian blue frits from the Roman Empire | p. 176 |
Microstructures | p. 178 |
Chemical compositions and raw materials | p. 179 |
Production centres for Egyptian blue frits | p. 184 |
Production of Glazed Pottery and Brickwork in the Near East | p. 187 |
Historical overview | p. 188 |
Beginnings of glazed clay ceramics | p. 189 |
Neo-Assyrian - Achaemenid period | p. 193 |
Glazed clay ceramics | p. 194 |
Glazed quartz-based ceramics | p. 194 |
Seleucid-Sassanian period | p. 196 |
Conclusions and Future Research | p. 199 |
Technological choices | p. 200 |
Quartz | p. 201 |
Alkali flux | p. 204 |
Colorants | p. 205 |
Glazing methods | p. 207 |
Independent invention, technological transfer and trade | p. 208 |
Egypt, the Near East and the Indus Valley | p. 208 |
Minoan Crete and the Mycenaean mainland | p. 210 |
Northern and western Europe | p. 211 |
Future work | p. 212 |
Strontium, Oxygen and Neodymium Isotope Analysis of Ancient Glass | p. 215 |
Strontium isotopes | p. 215 |
Oxygen isotopes | p. 216 |
Neodymium isotopes | p. 217 |
Summary | p. 218 |
References | p. 219 |
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