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- Title
Investigations of Ancient Terra-cotta Sarcophagi, Excavated in Enez (Ainos) Turkey, by Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis.
- Authors
Akyuz, Sevim; Akyuz, Tanil; Mukhamedshina, Nuranya M.; Balci, Kubilay; Mirsagatova, A. Adiba; Kurap, Gulnur; Basaran, Sait
- Abstract
Ten terra-cotta sarcophagi, together with a terra-cotta aryballos (perfume jar), excavated in Su Terazisi necropolis of Enez-Turkey (Ancient Ainos), were investigated by Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA), to determine the concentration of thirty two chemical elements: Na, K, Ca, Fe, Sc, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Se, Br, Rb, Sr, Sb, Cs, Ba, La, Ce, Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb, Dy, Yb, Lu, Hf, Ta, Th and U. The dataset was submitted to multivariate statistical analysis. The classification was done by cluster analysis. The results demonstrated the occurrence of two different groups of terra-cotta samples. Group I contains nine sarcophagi and terra-cotta aryballos whereas group II contains only one sample (E09-ST5-M26). High correlations between La and Ce (r² = 0.92), and U and Th (r² = 0.91) indicated that local clay was used for manufacturing the terra-cotta sarcophagi and aryballos but probably the claybed used for E09-ST5-M26 was different from that of others.
- Subjects
ENEZ (Turkey); NUCLEAR activation analysis; TERRA-cotta; MULTIVARIATE analysis; CLUSTER analysis (Statistics)
- Publication
Croatica Chemica Acta, 2015, Vol 88, Issue 4, p421
- ISSN
0011-1643
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5562/cca2747