Assessing the standardisation of Egyptian shabti manufacture via morphology and elemental analyses
| Autor: | Michael J. Withford, Ronika K. Power, Candace Richards, Michelle F. Whitford, Mattias Johnsson, Michael Rampe, Simon Wyatt-Spratt, Damian B. Gore |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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010506 paleontology
Archeology Elemental composition Materials science 060102 archaeology Fluorescence spectrometry 3d scanning Morphology (biology) 06 humanities and the arts 01 natural sciences Principal component analysis 0601 history and archaeology Manufacturing methods Batch production Biological system Cluster analysis 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 33:102541 |
| ISSN: | 2352-409X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102541 |
| Popis: | Ancient Egyptian shabtis have been described as mass-produced, mould-made objects. We analyse the morphology and elemental composition of three sets of seven shabtis using 3D scanning, X-ray fluorescence spectrometry and principal component analysis clustering. The morphology and elemental composition of the shabtis allow us to conclude that these object types were made with different degrees of morphological and compositional standardisation indicating different manufacturing methods. We suggest that mass-production is an oversimplified label to describe shabti manufacturing as our findings demonstrate evidence of batch-processing methods. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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