Data set of major, minor and trace elements in Co-coloured Egyptian glass objects from the 18th dynasty workshops at Amarna, Egypt

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false4DOIDB.GFZ 10.5880/GFZ.3.3.2019.001 Hodgkinson, Anna Anna Hodgkinson 0000-0001-5763-5806 Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Ägyptologisches Seminar, Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin. Frick, Daniel A. Daniel A. Frick 0000-0002-8530-3064 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Earth Surface Geochemistry, Potsdam, Germany Data set of major, minor and trace elements in Co-coloured Egyptian glass objects from the 18th dynasty workshops at Amarna, Egypt GFZ Data Services 2020 Glass cobalt Egypt Amarna Late Bronze Age LA-ICP-MS pXRF chemical element > transition element > cobalt EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY > TRACE ELEMENTS/TRACE METALS In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Spectrometers/Radiometers > LA-ICP-MS In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Spectrometers/Radiometers > XRF industry > glass industry land > world > Africa > North Africa product > miscellaneous product > glass Hodgkinson, Anna Anna Hodgkinson 0000-0001-5763-5806 Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Ägyptologisches Seminar, Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin. Frick, Daniel A. Daniel A. Frick 0000-0002-8530-3064 GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Earth Surface Geochemistry, Potsdam, Germany Hodgkinson, Anna Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Ägyptologisches Seminar Frick, Daniel A. GFZ Potsdam Dataset 10.5281/zenodo.3605660 10.3929/ethz-a-007615617 10.1111/j.1751-908X.2005.tb00904.x 10.1111/j.1751-908X.2011.00120.x 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.08.004 10.1039/Ja9961100899 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2006.00248.x CC BY 4.0 During the Egyptian 18th dynasty (c. 1550–1292 BC), cobalt ore was mined, processed and used as a colourant for glass, faience and blue-painted pottery. Co-coloured glass objects have a mid- to dark blue colour and were produced in order to imitate the semi-precious stone lapis lazuli. During this period, the glass objects were manufactured predominantly at two sites: Malqata (25°42'51.2"N 32°35'33.4"E) and Amarna (27°38'40.3"N 30°53'55.0"E).

Major, minor and trace element concentration data from 38 blue glass objects from Amarna in the collection of Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection in Berlin are reported in this data publication. For comparison, glass objects from the same period and location, but of different colours (one red, two each of colourless, green and turquoise-blue glass) were analysed with the same method. These objects were originally brought to Berlin subsequent to the 1911–1914 excavations at Amarna carried out under the direction of Ludwig Borchardt on behalf of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft. Unfortunately, most of these have by now lost their specific finds location. In addition, two recent samples of cobalt ore from the region of Ain Asil, near the Dakhla oasis (25°30'59.6"N 29°09'59.8"E), were included in the analysis.

Amarna 30.8929 30.9081 27.6437 27.6558 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 EXC 264 Topoi - The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations