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Roman Period Stone Vessels at Syedra
Höyük, 2023 Syedra was important in Antiquity as a port city and a residential area on the sheltered summit. It is understood from the inscriptions, finds, and structures that the settlement continued to the town from the 9th century BC to ...
Mustafa Yıldızlı
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Preserving the Danube Limes in Serbia: A review of the biodeterioration of Trajan’s Bridge [PDF]
Starinar, 2023 One of the most significant monuments of the Roman Danube Limes is Trajan’s Bridge, built in the period from 103 to 105 AD. The remains of the pillars on the Serbian bank of the Danube were partially restored four decades ago.
Unković Nikola +3 more
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Crystals, 2022 The Roman villa of Noheda, located in the municipality of Villar de Domingo García (Cuenca), is one of the most important archaeological sites in Spain and one of the most important museum complexes in Europe.
Miguel Ángel Valero Tévar +4 more
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Mechanical resilience and cementitious processes in Imperial Roman architectural mortar [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014 SignificanceA volcanic ash–lime mortar has been regarded for centuries as the principal material constituent that provides long-term durability to ancient Roman architectural concrete. A reproduction of Imperial-age mortar based on Trajan’s Markets (110 CE) wall concrete resists microcracking through cohesion of calcium–aluminum–silicate–hydrate ...
Marie D. Jackson +9 more
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The Fourth-Century AD Expansion of the Graeco-Roman Settlement of Karanis (Kom Aushim) in the Northern Fayum* [PDF]
, 2015 The Graeco-Roman town of Karanis, founded during the Ptolemaic Period in the north-eastern Fayum in the third century bc and long thought to have been abandoned in the third century ad actually saw a substantial expansion during the fourth century AD ...
Barnard, Hans +4 more
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Low energy pre-blended mortars: Part 2 – Production and characterisation of mortars using a novel lime drying technique [PDF]
, 2015 The presence of free water in mortars destined for silo or bagged storage can lead to the degradation of the binder phase. Such water may be present as a result of using wet, as-delivered sand or as a consequence of prior processes such as de-activation ...
Antoni +19 more
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Journal of Spectroscopy, 2018 Forty-two mortar samples, from two archaeological excavations located in Sagunto (Valencian Community, Spain), were analysed by both portable energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (pED-XRF) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry ...
M. Ramacciotti +8 more
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Crystals, 2021 Mithraea, religious Roman buildings, are very common in Italian archeological sites. There are sixteen in Ostia Antica (Rome, Italy)The poor state of conservation, due to the intrinsic environmental conditions, characterized them: they consist of open ...
Claudia Scatigno +4 more
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What was a mortarium used for? Organic residues and cultural change in Iron Age and Roman Britain. [PDF]
, 2011 The Romans brought the mortarium to Britain in the first century AD, and there has long been speculation on its actual purpose. Using analysis of the residues trapped in the walls of these ‘kitchen blenders’ and comparing them with Iron Age and Roman ...
Cramp, Lucy J E +2 more
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Unexpected Findings in 16th Century Wall Paintings: Identification of Aragonite and Unusual Pigments
Heritage, 2021 Sixteenth century wall paintings were analyzed from a church in an advanced state of decay in the Apennines of central Italy, now a remote area but once located along the salt routes from the Po Valley to the Ligurian Sea. Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR-ATR)
Laura Rampazzi +3 more
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