Chemical Classification and Provenance of Some Roman Glazed Ceramics

Roman Glazed Ceramics in the Western Mediterranean: Chemical Characterization by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry of Ceramic Bodies

“…Only two references (Picon & Desbat, 1986;Hatcher et al, 1994) have been published on body analyses of lead-glazed ceramics. In consequence our conclusions are limited by the lack of reported body compositional data.…”

“…For example, the two most complete analytical reports on Roman glazes (Caley, 1947;Hochuli-Gysel, 1977) do not include body analyses, while other publications give body fabric analyses but no quantitative data on glaze composition (Picon & Desbat, 1986), and there is only one publication that gives a complete quantitative analysis of Roman glazes and their supporting bodies (Hatcher et al, 1994). This present research program will be completed with an additional program of Scanning Electron Microscopy of Roman lead glazes (Pérez-Arantegui et al, 1995).…”

“…In fact, there was another important manufacturing area in central Gaul, with several renowned workshops (particularly Saint-Rémy-en-Rollat and Vichy), although every workshop in the Allier and Loire Valleys (France) may also have manufactured glazed ceramics during the 1st century  (Vertet, 1986). Chronologically, the earlier materials were from the Tiberian period, but production extended until the end of the 1st century , when these glazed products spread mainly across northern Gaul (Jigan, 1988), Great Britain (Hawkes & Hull, 1947;Symonds & Hatcher, 1989;Hatcher et al, 1994), Switzerland and Germany (Vertet, 1986). In contrast, the Iberian Peninsula was removed from these trade routes.…”

“…Their production flourished during the Hellenistic period in the region of Tarsus, from which the technique spread to all the other regions during the 1st century  (Alarçao, 1976). Several possible production centres have already been studied or suggested for the western Roman world: Italy, Gaul, Britain, Germany or Spain (Alarçao, 1976;Desbat, 1986a;Hatcher et al, 1994).…”

Análisis mediante microscopía electrónica de barrido (SEM-EDX) de la base de cerámica vidriada de un molde para soplar vidrio procedente de "Augustobriga" (Talavera la Vieja, Cáceres)

“…A la hora de realizar los citados análisis varias han sido las técnicas empleadas: Hatcher et al (1994) combinan la absorción atómica (AAS) con la fluorescencia de Rayos X (XRF), Picon y Desbat (1986) utilizan sólo la fluorescencia de rayos X para analizar los cuerpos cerámicos, Pérez Arantegui et al (1995Arantegui et al ( y 1996 analizan los cuerpos cerámicos mediante espectrometría de emisión atómica acoplada a plasma inducido (ICP-AES). De Benedetto et al (2004) y Pérez Arantegui et al (1999 utilizan la microscopia electrónica de barrido (SEM-EDS).…”