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Overseas imports on the Blue Nile: Chemical compositional analysis of glass beads from Soba, Nubia
Archaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 5, Page 1018-1031, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Archaeological evidence as well as textual sources leave no doubt about Alwa's (Alodia's) intense transcultural connections, further corroborated by understudied overseas glass bead imports found there. This paper presents results of an analysis of 23 glass beads from Soba, the most prosperous capital of medieval Nubia.
Joanna Then‐Obłuska, Laure Dussubieux
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Color, light, and birth space design: An integrative review
Color Research &Application, Volume 48, Issue 5, Page 413-432, September/October 2023., 2023 Maternity care facilities are not meeting the needs and desires of birthing women. Current research shows that birth spaces have influence on how birth processes, experiences, and caregiving unfold. This is the first integrative review of existing literature on color and light related to birthspace design.
Doreen Balabanoff
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Looking Beyond Jerusalem: A Fifteenth‐Century Exercise in Image Comparison
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 640-666, September 2023., 2023 Critical image comparison is a widespread art‐historical practice. This essay explores why a Brabantine artist encouraged viewers to exercise it in the late fifteenth century. At the time, northern European artists tested out how images could be means of transcending the visible world while simultaneously showcasing their very constructedness. The self‐
Hanna Vorholt
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La faïencerie de Lunéville. Du repérage d’objets à la patrimonialisation participative
In Situ, 2019 The association of the friends of the old faience factory of Lunéville Saint-Clément was founded in 1998 and has two main aims: to study and promote the heritage of the faience produced by the famous (and less famous) faience factories of Lunéville, in ...
Jeannine Guenot, Denis Saillard
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Alternative raw material research for decarbonization of UK glass manufacture
International Journal of Applied Glass Science, Volume 14, Issue 3, Page 341-365, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Based on the current UK decarbonization policy, a general outlook on potential routes for the glass industry to achieve net‐zero is discussed and the differentiation during decarbonization is specified. Biomass ash is considered a potential alternative raw material for low‐carbon glass manufacture as it is rich in certain advantageous ...
Wei Deng +8 more
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Archaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 653-690, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Inlays range among the most aesthetically pleasing and technically challenging glasses produced in the Ptolemaic period. Despite the central role of this phase in the history of glass technology, little is known about the recipes and the technological knowledge of the Egyptian artisans.
Cinzia Bettineschi, Ivana Angelini
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Early Makuria Research Project. Beads and pendants from the tumulus cemetery in Nubian Tanqasi, Sudan [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2018 An assemblage of 1687 beads and pendants was recovered from the excavation of five tumuli (16, 23, 46, 52, 179) in the cemetery of Tanqasi in Sudan. The assemblage is dominated by faience beads (n=920). The remaining beads and pendants are made of glass (
Joanna Then-Obłuska
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Advanced Research in Conservation Science, 2022 sherif_omar_m@cu.edu ...
Mohamed Ibrahim, Ayat Hassib, S. Omar
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 444-460, May/June 2023., 2023 Abstract Throughout Egypt and Nubia's state formation periods (4400–1750 BCE), broad transformations impacted Nile Valley communities, which experienced agricultural consolidation, sedentarization, and more complex social organization. The current study examines the various patterns and levels of physical activity in the skeletal remains of 259 ...
Jared Carballo‐Pérez +1 more
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A Faience Aryballos in the Collection of the University Museum at Wroclaw
Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2017 In the collection of the University Museum of Wroclaw is a spherical faience aryballos of unknown provenance. It belongs to a group of vessels which enjoyed widespread popularity over a vast area of the Mediterranean in the 6th century BC.
Agata Kubala
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