Compositional study of mortars and pigments from the 'Mosaico della Sala dei Draghi e dei Delfini' in the archaeological site of Kaulonía (Southern Calabria, Magna Graecia, Italy)
| Autor: | Alessandra De Natale, Gino Mirocle Crisci, Raffaella De Luca, Francesco Antonio Cuteri, Giuseppe Mantella, Andrea Bloise, Luigi Dattola, Domenico Miriello, Flavia Gazineo, Maria Teresa Iannelli |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Archeology
060102 archaeology Ancient city media_common.quotation_subject Hellenistic period 06 humanities and the arts 02 engineering and technology Art Ancient history 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Archaeology Mosaic Anthropology 0601 history and archaeology Polychrome 0210 nano-technology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 9:317-336 |
| ISSN: | 1866-9565 1866-9557 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12520-015-0285-9 |
| Popis: | This work focuses on the archaeometric study of mortars and pigments coming from the “Mosaico della Sala dei Draghi e dei Delfini”, the oldest and most complex Hellenistic mosaic of the Magna Graecia, located in the Hellenistic baths of the archaeological site of Kaulonia (Southern Calabria, Italy). From this mosaic, mortar samples belonging to different stratigraphic sequences and coloured filling mortars were analyzed through polarized optical microscopy (OM), microanalysis scanning electron microscopy with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) and Raman spectroscopy. To study the executive technique and the typology of pigments used in the mosaics of the Magna Graecia, it was considered another mosaic of Kaulonia: the “Mosaico della Casa del Drago”, the first polychrome mosaic discovered in the ancient city, which represents the figure of the dragon. From this last mosaic, one sample of painted surface lime was collected and compared with the coloured filling mortars of the Mosaico della Sala dei Draghi e dei Delfini. In addition, a sample of Jurassic limestone with red mineralizations, from the north of the city of Stilo, was sampled to study the provenance of the pigments used. To this day, research has not yet focused on the compositional study of the Hellenistic mosaics of Kaulonia. For this reason, this work wants to give, for the first time, information about the executive techniques of these mosaics and the composition of mortars and pigments, increasing the knowledge on the production technology of the mosaic in the Hellenistic period and, in particular, in the archaeological site of Kaulonia. |
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