EGYPTIAN
ARCHAEOLOGY
Left: scatterplot showing potassium oxide (K2O) and aluminium trioxide (Al2O3) levels in the blue glasses analysed in Berlin.
Below: the periodic table of elements, colour-coded according to element recognition using ED-pXRF.
(LBA = Late Bronze Age) I would like to thank the Egypt Exploration Society for kindly funding this pilot study. I would also like to thank the supporting institutions and persons involved in the analytical series: Friederike Seyfried, director of the Egyptian Museum Berlin and conservator Nina Loschwitz, the excellence cluster TOPOI, particularly Michael Mayer and Gerwulf Schneider for providing the instrument and reference materials, and the representatives of the Institute of Geographical Sciences of the Freie Universität Berlin: Philipp Hoelzmann and Frank Kutz, the latter having acted as radiation officer and supervising the pXRF measurements. I would also like to thank Ina Reiche and Stefan Röhrs of the Rathgen-Forschungslabor for the SEM-EDX measurements and for lending me reference materials, and Markus Ostermann and Manfred Torge at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, who also provided glass standards. I am furthermore very grateful to Caroline Jackson and Paul Nicholson who provided invaluable advice. 27