Cone mosaic façades in Mesopotamia (4th millenium BCE): archaeometric approach to an architectural innovation
ALLOTEAU, Fanny
Archéosciences Bordeaux
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz [Staatliche Museen zu Berlin]
Archéosciences Bordeaux
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz [Staatliche Museen zu Berlin]
DERMECH, Sarah
Archéologie et histoire ancienne : Méditerranée - Europe [ARCHIMEDE]
Gerda Henkel Stiftung
Archéologie et histoire ancienne : Méditerranée - Europe [ARCHIMEDE]
Gerda Henkel Stiftung
IULIANO, Adriana
Archéosciences Bordeaux
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz [Staatliche Museen zu Berlin]
Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna [UNIBO]
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Archéosciences Bordeaux
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz [Staatliche Museen zu Berlin]
Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna [UNIBO]
ALLOTEAU, Fanny
Archéosciences Bordeaux
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz [Staatliche Museen zu Berlin]
Archéosciences Bordeaux
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz [Staatliche Museen zu Berlin]
DERMECH, Sarah
Archéologie et histoire ancienne : Méditerranée - Europe [ARCHIMEDE]
Gerda Henkel Stiftung
Archéologie et histoire ancienne : Méditerranée - Europe [ARCHIMEDE]
Gerda Henkel Stiftung
IULIANO, Adriana
Archéosciences Bordeaux
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz [Staatliche Museen zu Berlin]
Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna [UNIBO]
Archéosciences Bordeaux
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz [Staatliche Museen zu Berlin]
Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna [UNIBO]
RADUJKOVIC, Sonja
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz [Staatliche Museen zu Berlin]
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz [Staatliche Museen zu Berlin]
HELWING, Barbara
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz [Staatliche Museen zu Berlin]
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Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz [Staatliche Museen zu Berlin]
Language
de
Chapitre d'ouvrage
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Mosaïk in situ – transloziert – museal. Beiträge des 15. Konservierungswissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums in Berlin/Brandenburg am 4. November 2022, Mosaïk in situ – transloziert – museal. Beiträge des 15. Konservierungswissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums in Berlin/Brandenburg am 4. November 2022. 2022 n° 64, p. 12-21
Michael Imhof Verlag
English Abstract
We present an archaeometric study of clay mosaic cones from the archaeological site of Uruk, excavated in the earlier 20th century and currently kept in the Museum of the Ancient Near East in Berlin (Vorderasiatisches ...Read more >
We present an archaeometric study of clay mosaic cones from the archaeological site of Uruk, excavated in the earlier 20th century and currently kept in the Museum of the Ancient Near East in Berlin (Vorderasiatisches Museum – VAM). Clay cones have been found in major and distant centres of the 4th millennium BCE Uruk period and are characteristic for monumental architecture. They were used to create colourful geometric patterns on the façades of buildings. Research focused on reconstructing the colouring of the cone heads by investigating colourants and the technical processes of their application. From microscopic observations and spectroscopic analyses, the main colouring materials were identified as dolomite for the white-coloured clay cones, hematite/ochre for the red ones, and bitumen for the black ones. These colouring materials are assumed to have been applied cold, after the firing of the ceramic, and in association with an organic binder for the white- and the red-coloured cones.Read less <
Keywords
Uruk
mosaïque
cônes
analyses archéométriques
Uruk récent
pigment
couleurs
English Keywords
Uruk
clay cones
mosaic
Late Chalcolithic 5
Near East
pigments
archaeometric analyses
German Keywords
Uruk
Stiftmosaik
Farben
Archäometrie
Pigment
Late Chalcolithic 5
Spät-Uruk Zeit
Origin
Hal importedCollections