STUDY AND COMPARISONS BETWEEN PLOUGHING AND OTHER FORMS OF CORROSION OF GREEK ARCHAEOLOGICAL GLASS

Authors

  • V. LAMPROPOULOS Dept. of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, Faculty of Graphic Arts and Design, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, 50 - 52 Aliartou str., Athens 11142, Greece
  • A. LEAKOU Dept. of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, Faculty of Graphic Arts and Design, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, 64 Aegaeou Pelagous str, Agia Paraskevi 15342, Greece
  • A. KARAMPOTSOS Dept. of Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, Faculty of Graphic Arts and Design, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece, 65 Chrysostomou Smymis str., Athens 11144, Greece

Keywords:

Glass, Dulling, Weeping, Pitting, Iridescence, Ploughing

Abstract

This paper is an initiative study of a form of corrosion of archaeological glass that until now has been recorded, but not studied. Seven samples of glass, that exhibit this type of corrosion, have been examined in the scanning electron microscope (S.E.M.) and analyzed by E.D.X.A. and three samples of the soil that they were found have been tested by X-ray diffraction (X.R.D.). The samples come from the excavations of the 22™ ephorate of prehistoric and classical antiquities in the city of Rhodes. The present study contains the description of "ploughing", the results of some characteristic analyses of the samples and the preliminary conclusions.

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Published

2023-07-20

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2004)

Section

Articles