Historical glass; Altare; PIXE-PIGE; Archaeometry; Quantitative analysis; Raw materials
Abstract :
[en] Altare was in the medieval and post-medieval period an important glassmaking center in the Liguria region in Northern Italy. The first historical evidence of glassmaking in Altare is dated to the twelfth century. In spite of that, due to the continuity of glassmaking up to the present time and the contemporaneous intensive urbanization of the territory, no medieval glass from Altare or its immediate vicinity has been analyzed up to now. In this work, glass from archaeological excavations in the center of Savona, city with close ties with the glassmaking center, was studied. Glass fragments, dated from the tenth to the sixteenth century were selected from the collections of the Archaeological Museum in Savona and non-destructively analyzed with quantitative PIXE-PIGE. The resulting compositions, compared with known glass productions of the same time and evaluated on the basis of historical documents, offer an interesting panorama on the variety of glass circulation in Liguria.
Research center :
CEA - Centre Européen en Archéométrie - ULiège
Disciplines :
Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Cagno, Simone; Universiteit Antwerpen - UA > Department of Chemistry
Badano Borondi, M.; Altare Glass History Institute
Mathis, François ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de physique > Centre Européen d'Archéométrie
Strivay, David ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de physique > Physique nucléaire, atomique et spectroscopie
Janssens, Koen; Universiteit Antwerpen - UA > Department of Chemistry
Language :
English
Title :
Study of medieval glass fragments originating from Savona (Italy) and their relation with the glass produced in Altare
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