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- Title
Morphological reconstruction of Roman arrowheads from Iulia Concordia: Italy.
- Authors
Salvemini, Filomena; Grazzi, Francesco; Angelini, Ivana; Vontobel, Peter; Vigoni, Alberto; Artioli, Gilberto; Zoppi, Marco
- Abstract
Iulia Concordia is an important Roman settlement especially known for the production of weapons during the Roman Empire. Excavations of the area revealed the evidence of metal-working activities and a huge number of well preserved arrowheads ( sagittae) were found. In order to investigate the conservation state of the finds and to shed light about the production processes used by Roman for the manufacturing of sagittae, a neutron tomography analysis was performed on NEUTRA beam line at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland. Here, we present results from our investigation conducted on 18 samples, disclosing, in a non-invasive way, the morphological characteristic related to the ancient Roman working techniques.
- Subjects
ROME; METALWORK; CRYSTAL morphology; NEUTRONS; TOMOGRAPHY
- Publication
Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, 2014, Vol 117, Issue 3, p1227
- ISSN
0947-8396
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00339-014-8511-3