Corpus Asher-Greve. Dealing with "Data form the Past"

Abstract

SNF-Project (1.722-0.83): Naturwissenschaftliche und typologische Untersuchungen an Rollsiegeln. When?         1983-1986 Who?           Dr. Julia Asher-Greve and Prof. Dr. Willem Stern, University of Basel Material?     1017 cylinder seals from Mesopotamia and neighbouring regions covering all periods from Uruk to Achaemenid period. What? XRD (X-ray diffraction) -> mineralogical composition EDXRF (energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence) -> chemical composition Iconographical typology Project couldn’t be brought to an end, data not interpreted   PhD-Project based on the corpus and analyses of the project Asher-Greve When?         2017-2020 (?) Who?           Nicole Gäumann Material?     Same What? Interpretation of XRD- and EDXRF from previous project Further analyses on existing powder samples (?) Typology Bringing together the results of the material analyses and the archaeological data, the material ought to be interpreted in terms of connections between material, colour, dating, provenance, theme, owner… &nbsp