Iron Oxide Rock Artefacts in Mesopotamia C. 2600-1200 BC : : An Interdisciplinary Study of Hematite, Goethite and Magnetite Objects.

The flourishing civilisations of Mesopotamia imported all kinds of materials from the surrounding regions. Iron oxide rock was very popular for weight stones and cylinder seals around 2000 BC. This research aims to determine the region of origin for the raw material, what made people start using iro...

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The flourishing civilisations of Mesopotamia imported all kinds of materials from the surrounding regions. Iron oxide rock was very popular for weight stones and cylinder seals around 2000 BC. This research aims to determine the region of origin for the raw material, what made people start using iron oxide rock, and what led them to stop using it.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. General introduction -- 1.1 Background -- Text-based approach -- 1.2 Aim and outline of the research -- 1.3 Dissemination of the results -- 2. Formation, mineralogy and occurrence of iron oxide rocks -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Mineral properties of iron oxide rocks and recognizing iron oxide rocks in the field -- 2.3 Formation of iron oxide rocks -- 2.4 The occurrence of iron oxide rocks in and around Mesopotamia -- 2.5 Summary and conclusions -- 3. The archaeological evidence - a qualitative approach -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Raw iron oxide rocks in excavations -- 3.3 Type of objects made out of iron oxide rocks -- 3.3.1 Seals -- 3.3.2 Balance weights -- 3.3.3 Miscellaneous iron oxide rock artefacts -- 3.3.4 Summary of the artefact types -- 3.4 Production of artefacts -- 3.4.1 Summary of the production process -- 3.5 Summary and conclusions -- 4. The archaeological evidence - a quantitative approach -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Lay-out of the database -- 4.2.1 Labels -- 4.2.2 Regions -- 4.2.3 Date in years vs. periods -- 4.3 Assessment of the database -- 4.3.1 Artefacts left out of the analyses -- 4.4 Artefacts per period -- 4.5 Artefacts per period per context -- 4.6 Artefacts per period per region -- 4.7 Sizes of the artefacts and the half fabricates -- 4.7.1 Sizes of the artefacts -- 4.7.2 Sizes of the half- fabricates -- 5. Hematite - the evidence from the cuneiform sources -- 5.2.1 NA4KA.GI.NA, NA4KUR-nu and šadānu -- 5.2.2 Writing -- 5.2.3 Ḫusarum not hematite -- 5.2.4 The illness šadānu -- 5.3 The textual sources -- 5.3.1 Texts mentioning šadānu - not medical-magical -- 5.3.2 ḪAR-ra=ḫubullu: a Mesopotamian introduction to šadānu -- 5.3.3 Ninurta/Lugal-e -- 5.3.4 Astrological text.
5.3.5 Objects made of šadānu -- 5.3.6 The provenance of šadānu according to the texts -- 5.3.7 Šadānu ṣābitu and the earliest description of magnetism -- 5.3.8 Magical-medical texts -- 6. Material Analyses -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Aims -- 6.3 Previous research -- 6.4 Analysis of artefacts from three Dutch collections -- 6.4.1 Introduction -- 6.4.2 Materials and Methods -- 6.4.3 Results -- 6.4.4 Archaeological discussion -- 6.4.5 Discussion of the techniques applied for this research -- 6.5 Summary and conclusions -- 7. Conclusions and synthesis -- 7.2 Conclusions -- 7.2.1 Mineralogy and geology -- 7.2.2 Archaeology - a qualitative approach -- 7.2.3 Archaeology - a quantitative approach -- 7.2.4 Cuneiform sources -- 7.2.5 Archaeometry - Material analyses -- 7.3 Synthesis -- 7.4 Future research -- Summary -- Appendix I: Overview of Syrian and Mesopotamian history, and cylinder seal styles ca. 3000-1200 BC -- Appendix II: The Database -- Appendix III: Reference numbers used in the database -- Appendix IV: Concordance of artefacts from the De Liagre Böhl Collection -- Appendix V: Medical-magical texts mentioning iron oxide rock -- Appendix VI: Material analyses per artefact -- Figure 1.1: Area under study, with sites where iron oxide rock artefacts were found. -- Table 2.1: Terminology as used in the archaeological literature. -- Table 2.2: Iron oxides and oxide hydroxides. After Cornell and Schwertmann 1996, table 1.1. -- Table 2.3: Some mineralogical properties of hematite, goethite and magnetite. Based on Cornell and Schwertmann 1996. -- Figure 2.1: Example of clear carving: cylinder seal LB66 and its modern impression, height of the seal is 19mm. -- Figure 2.2: Colour variations in iron oxide rock artefacts -- from left to right, top to bottom: half fabricate/ weight APM10960, goethite, 25*20mm.
cylinder seal APM06370, hematite, 22*9mm -- cylinder seal APM06361, hematite + calcite, 23*9mm -- weight APM109 -- Table 2.4: Comparison of streaks and neutron diffraction (ND) data. See Chapter 6. -- Figure 2.3: Iron oxide minerals compared to Mohs scale and tools to determine hardness. -- Table 2.5: Hardness of stones used for cylinder seals and beads before and during the 2nd mill. BC. -- Figure 2.4: Flowchart for recognizing iron oxide rock artefacts in the field. -- Table 2.6: Iron oxide rocks and ores containing hematite, goethite and/or magnetite, classified by origin. Based on Cornell and Schwertmann 1996, pp.348-393. -- Figure 2.5: Piece of iron oxide rock from the vicinity of Tell Bazi, Syria, where the iron precipitated in cavities in the limestone rock. -- Figure 2.6: Outcrops of iron oxide rock in horizontal layers in the limestone matrix (see arrows) near Tell Bazi. -- Figure 2.7: Areas with iron oxide rock deposits. -- Table 2.7: Areas with iron oxide rock deposits. -- Figure 3.1: Sites where raw iron oxide rock was found. -- Figure 3.2: Hematite cylinders from Selenkahiye. After Van Loon 1969, III.1. -- Figure 3.3: Roughly cylinder-shaped or horn-shaped piece of raw goethite from the Tell Bazi area. -- 3.3 Type of objects made out of iron oxide rocks -- 3.3.1 Seals -- 3.3.2 Balance weights -- 3.3.3 Miscellaneous iron oxide rock artefacts -- 3.3.4 Summary of the artefact types -- Figure 3.4: Roughly duck weight-shaped piece of raw goethite from the vicinity of Tell Bazi. -- Table 3.1 Raw materials in excavations. -- Figure 3.5: Cylinder seal LB62 with its modern impression. -- Figure 3.6: Examples of sealing practices. From http://www.sabi-abyad.nl. -- Table 3.2: Recut seals in the database. See Appendix II. -- Table 3.3: Materials of seals in the British Museum and the Marcopoli Collection per period.
Table 3.4: Chronology of cylinder seal materials from the Marcopoli Collection After Teissier 1984: 335. -- Figure 3.7: Materials of seals in the British Museum and the Marcopoli Collection per period. After Teissier 1984 -- Collon 1986 -- Sax et al. 1993 -- Collon 2001 -- Sax et al. 2005. -- Figure 3.8: Sasanian stamp seal LB118 and its modern sealing. -- Figure 3.9: Bronze balance pans (A, diam. 96 mm) and weight stones (iron oxide rock examples D, E) found in Ugarit. From Schaeffer 1937, fig. 12. -- Figure 3.10: Depiction on a cylinder seal of weighing with a balance weight in front of Shamash. After Boehmer 1965, no. 1105. -- Table 3.6: A selection of weights from the database to demonstrate occurring shapes. -- Figure 3.11: A duck weight, APM01768 -- size: 23 x 11 x 11 mm -- weight: 5.82 grams. -- Table 3.7: Marked or inscribed weights in the database. See Appendix II. -- Figure 3.12: Pendant from Tell Billa, probably not iron oxide rock. Photo kindly provided by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. -- Table 3.8: Beads in the database. See Appendix II. -- Figure 3.13: Silver pendant inlaid with gold and hematite (Sb4884). Photo kindly provided by Deutsches Bergbaumuseum Bochum. -- Figure 3.14: Lion statuette TM.79.Q.339 from Ebla/Tell Mardikh. From Mazzoni 1980, fig. 29a-c. -- Figure 3.15: Possible goldsmiths' hammer from Ur, height 1.9 cm. From Ogden 1982, Pl.4.3. -- Figure 3.16: Not a touchstone, possibly a weight, from the Larsa hoard. From Arnaud et al. 1979, fig. 8. -- 3.4 Production of artefacts -- 3.4.1 Summary of the production process -- Figure 3.17: A cylindrical piece of iron oxide rock from the vicinity of Tell Bazi. -- Figure 3.18: Diagram of central perforation drilled from two sides. From Gwinnett and Gorelick 1981: 14. -- Figure 3.19: Diagram showing Larsen's formula for conicity ('Konizität'). From Larsen 1994: 53, Abb.7.
Figure 3.20: Bead making in India: the abrasive is being collected (A) while drilling and re-used as grinding slurry (B). From Possehl 1981, fig. 11. -- Figure 3.21: Technical innovations and iron oxide rock cylinder seals. -- 3.5 Summary and conclusions -- 4. The archaeological evidence - a quantitative approach -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Lay-out of the database -- 4.2.1 Labels -- 4.2.2 Regions -- 4.2.3 Date in years vs. periods -- 4.3 Assessment of the database -- 4.3.1 Artefacts left out of the analyses -- 4.4 Artefacts per period -- 4.5 Artefacts per period per context -- 4.6 Artefacts per period per region -- 4.7 Sizes of the artefacts and the half fabricates -- 4.7.1 Sizes of the artefacts -- 4.7.2 Sizes of the half- fabricates -- Table 4.1: Description of the labels of the database. -- Figure 4.1: Sites where iron oxide artefacts were found and their division into regions, see also Table 4.3. -- Table 4.2: Number of artefacts per type. -- Table 4.3: Sites per region, number of artefacts per site and per region, and grouping criteria per region. -- Table 4.4: Easily assignable date in years with period, including number of finds. -- Table 4.5: Date in years, not easily assigned to a period, with number of artefacts, to be divided over periods of 200 years. -- Table 4.6: Division of artefacts with a date in years 2000-1600. -- Table 4.7: Contexts of the artefacts with a date in years 1900 and 1600 BC. -- Table 4.8: Sites where the artefacts were found with a date in years 1900-1600 BC. -- Table 4.9: Division of artefacts with a date in years 1600-1300 BC. -- Figure 4.2: Percentages of provenanced and unprovenanced cylinder seals per period in the database. -- Figure 4.3: The number of finds before 2600 BC with the regions where they were found. -- Figure 4.4: The number of finds of 2600-2400 BC with the regions where they were found.
Figure 4.5: The number of finds of 2400-2200 BC with the regions where they were found.
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Iron Oxide Rock Artefacts in Mesopotamia C. 2600-1200 BC : An Interdisciplinary Study of Hematite, Goethite and Magnetite Objects.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. General introduction -- 1.1 Background -- Text-based approach -- 1.2 Aim and outline of the research -- 1.3 Dissemination of the results -- 2. Formation, mineralogy and occurrence of iron oxide rocks -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Mineral properties of iron oxide rocks and recognizing iron oxide rocks in the field -- 2.3 Formation of iron oxide rocks -- 2.4 The occurrence of iron oxide rocks in and around Mesopotamia -- 2.5 Summary and conclusions -- 3. The archaeological evidence - a qualitative approach -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Raw iron oxide rocks in excavations -- 3.3 Type of objects made out of iron oxide rocks -- 3.3.1 Seals -- 3.3.2 Balance weights -- 3.3.3 Miscellaneous iron oxide rock artefacts -- 3.3.4 Summary of the artefact types -- 3.4 Production of artefacts -- 3.4.1 Summary of the production process -- 3.5 Summary and conclusions -- 4. The archaeological evidence - a quantitative approach -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Lay-out of the database -- 4.2.1 Labels -- 4.2.2 Regions -- 4.2.3 Date in years vs. periods -- 4.3 Assessment of the database -- 4.3.1 Artefacts left out of the analyses -- 4.4 Artefacts per period -- 4.5 Artefacts per period per context -- 4.6 Artefacts per period per region -- 4.7 Sizes of the artefacts and the half fabricates -- 4.7.1 Sizes of the artefacts -- 4.7.2 Sizes of the half- fabricates -- 5. Hematite - the evidence from the cuneiform sources -- 5.2.1 NA4KA.GI.NA, NA4KUR-nu and šadānu -- 5.2.2 Writing -- 5.2.3 Ḫusarum not hematite -- 5.2.4 The illness šadānu -- 5.3 The textual sources -- 5.3.1 Texts mentioning šadānu - not medical-magical -- 5.3.2 ḪAR-ra=ḫubullu: a Mesopotamian introduction to šadānu -- 5.3.3 Ninurta/Lugal-e -- 5.3.4 Astrological text.
5.3.5 Objects made of šadānu -- 5.3.6 The provenance of šadānu according to the texts -- 5.3.7 Šadānu ṣābitu and the earliest description of magnetism -- 5.3.8 Magical-medical texts -- 6. Material Analyses -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Aims -- 6.3 Previous research -- 6.4 Analysis of artefacts from three Dutch collections -- 6.4.1 Introduction -- 6.4.2 Materials and Methods -- 6.4.3 Results -- 6.4.4 Archaeological discussion -- 6.4.5 Discussion of the techniques applied for this research -- 6.5 Summary and conclusions -- 7. Conclusions and synthesis -- 7.2 Conclusions -- 7.2.1 Mineralogy and geology -- 7.2.2 Archaeology - a qualitative approach -- 7.2.3 Archaeology - a quantitative approach -- 7.2.4 Cuneiform sources -- 7.2.5 Archaeometry - Material analyses -- 7.3 Synthesis -- 7.4 Future research -- Summary -- Appendix I: Overview of Syrian and Mesopotamian history, and cylinder seal styles ca. 3000-1200 BC -- Appendix II: The Database -- Appendix III: Reference numbers used in the database -- Appendix IV: Concordance of artefacts from the De Liagre Böhl Collection -- Appendix V: Medical-magical texts mentioning iron oxide rock -- Appendix VI: Material analyses per artefact -- Figure 1.1: Area under study, with sites where iron oxide rock artefacts were found. -- Table 2.1: Terminology as used in the archaeological literature. -- Table 2.2: Iron oxides and oxide hydroxides. After Cornell and Schwertmann 1996, table 1.1. -- Table 2.3: Some mineralogical properties of hematite, goethite and magnetite. Based on Cornell and Schwertmann 1996. -- Figure 2.1: Example of clear carving: cylinder seal LB66 and its modern impression, height of the seal is 19mm. -- Figure 2.2: Colour variations in iron oxide rock artefacts -- from left to right, top to bottom: half fabricate/ weight APM10960, goethite, 25*20mm.
cylinder seal APM06370, hematite, 22*9mm -- cylinder seal APM06361, hematite + calcite, 23*9mm -- weight APM109 -- Table 2.4: Comparison of streaks and neutron diffraction (ND) data. See Chapter 6. -- Figure 2.3: Iron oxide minerals compared to Mohs scale and tools to determine hardness. -- Table 2.5: Hardness of stones used for cylinder seals and beads before and during the 2nd mill. BC. -- Figure 2.4: Flowchart for recognizing iron oxide rock artefacts in the field. -- Table 2.6: Iron oxide rocks and ores containing hematite, goethite and/or magnetite, classified by origin. Based on Cornell and Schwertmann 1996, pp.348-393. -- Figure 2.5: Piece of iron oxide rock from the vicinity of Tell Bazi, Syria, where the iron precipitated in cavities in the limestone rock. -- Figure 2.6: Outcrops of iron oxide rock in horizontal layers in the limestone matrix (see arrows) near Tell Bazi. -- Figure 2.7: Areas with iron oxide rock deposits. -- Table 2.7: Areas with iron oxide rock deposits. -- Figure 3.1: Sites where raw iron oxide rock was found. -- Figure 3.2: Hematite cylinders from Selenkahiye. After Van Loon 1969, III.1. -- Figure 3.3: Roughly cylinder-shaped or horn-shaped piece of raw goethite from the Tell Bazi area. -- 3.3 Type of objects made out of iron oxide rocks -- 3.3.1 Seals -- 3.3.2 Balance weights -- 3.3.3 Miscellaneous iron oxide rock artefacts -- 3.3.4 Summary of the artefact types -- Figure 3.4: Roughly duck weight-shaped piece of raw goethite from the vicinity of Tell Bazi. -- Table 3.1 Raw materials in excavations. -- Figure 3.5: Cylinder seal LB62 with its modern impression. -- Figure 3.6: Examples of sealing practices. From http://www.sabi-abyad.nl. -- Table 3.2: Recut seals in the database. See Appendix II. -- Table 3.3: Materials of seals in the British Museum and the Marcopoli Collection per period.
Table 3.4: Chronology of cylinder seal materials from the Marcopoli Collection After Teissier 1984: 335. -- Figure 3.7: Materials of seals in the British Museum and the Marcopoli Collection per period. After Teissier 1984 -- Collon 1986 -- Sax et al. 1993 -- Collon 2001 -- Sax et al. 2005. -- Figure 3.8: Sasanian stamp seal LB118 and its modern sealing. -- Figure 3.9: Bronze balance pans (A, diam. 96 mm) and weight stones (iron oxide rock examples D, E) found in Ugarit. From Schaeffer 1937, fig. 12. -- Figure 3.10: Depiction on a cylinder seal of weighing with a balance weight in front of Shamash. After Boehmer 1965, no. 1105. -- Table 3.6: A selection of weights from the database to demonstrate occurring shapes. -- Figure 3.11: A duck weight, APM01768 -- size: 23 x 11 x 11 mm -- weight: 5.82 grams. -- Table 3.7: Marked or inscribed weights in the database. See Appendix II. -- Figure 3.12: Pendant from Tell Billa, probably not iron oxide rock. Photo kindly provided by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. -- Table 3.8: Beads in the database. See Appendix II. -- Figure 3.13: Silver pendant inlaid with gold and hematite (Sb4884). Photo kindly provided by Deutsches Bergbaumuseum Bochum. -- Figure 3.14: Lion statuette TM.79.Q.339 from Ebla/Tell Mardikh. From Mazzoni 1980, fig. 29a-c. -- Figure 3.15: Possible goldsmiths' hammer from Ur, height 1.9 cm. From Ogden 1982, Pl.4.3. -- Figure 3.16: Not a touchstone, possibly a weight, from the Larsa hoard. From Arnaud et al. 1979, fig. 8. -- 3.4 Production of artefacts -- 3.4.1 Summary of the production process -- Figure 3.17: A cylindrical piece of iron oxide rock from the vicinity of Tell Bazi. -- Figure 3.18: Diagram of central perforation drilled from two sides. From Gwinnett and Gorelick 1981: 14. -- Figure 3.19: Diagram showing Larsen's formula for conicity ('Konizität'). From Larsen 1994: 53, Abb.7.
Figure 3.20: Bead making in India: the abrasive is being collected (A) while drilling and re-used as grinding slurry (B). From Possehl 1981, fig. 11. -- Figure 3.21: Technical innovations and iron oxide rock cylinder seals. -- 3.5 Summary and conclusions -- 4. The archaeological evidence - a quantitative approach -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Lay-out of the database -- 4.2.1 Labels -- 4.2.2 Regions -- 4.2.3 Date in years vs. periods -- 4.3 Assessment of the database -- 4.3.1 Artefacts left out of the analyses -- 4.4 Artefacts per period -- 4.5 Artefacts per period per context -- 4.6 Artefacts per period per region -- 4.7 Sizes of the artefacts and the half fabricates -- 4.7.1 Sizes of the artefacts -- 4.7.2 Sizes of the half- fabricates -- Table 4.1: Description of the labels of the database. -- Figure 4.1: Sites where iron oxide artefacts were found and their division into regions, see also Table 4.3. -- Table 4.2: Number of artefacts per type. -- Table 4.3: Sites per region, number of artefacts per site and per region, and grouping criteria per region. -- Table 4.4: Easily assignable date in years with period, including number of finds. -- Table 4.5: Date in years, not easily assigned to a period, with number of artefacts, to be divided over periods of 200 years. -- Table 4.6: Division of artefacts with a date in years 2000-1600. -- Table 4.7: Contexts of the artefacts with a date in years 1900 and 1600 BC. -- Table 4.8: Sites where the artefacts were found with a date in years 1900-1600 BC. -- Table 4.9: Division of artefacts with a date in years 1600-1300 BC. -- Figure 4.2: Percentages of provenanced and unprovenanced cylinder seals per period in the database. -- Figure 4.3: The number of finds before 2600 BC with the regions where they were found. -- Figure 4.4: The number of finds of 2600-2400 BC with the regions where they were found.
Figure 4.5: The number of finds of 2400-2200 BC with the regions where they were found.
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title Iron Oxide Rock Artefacts in Mesopotamia C. 2600-1200 BC : An Interdisciplinary Study of Hematite, Goethite and Magnetite Objects.
title_sub An Interdisciplinary Study of Hematite, Goethite and Magnetite Objects.
title_full Iron Oxide Rock Artefacts in Mesopotamia C. 2600-1200 BC : An Interdisciplinary Study of Hematite, Goethite and Magnetite Objects.
title_fullStr Iron Oxide Rock Artefacts in Mesopotamia C. 2600-1200 BC : An Interdisciplinary Study of Hematite, Goethite and Magnetite Objects.
title_full_unstemmed Iron Oxide Rock Artefacts in Mesopotamia C. 2600-1200 BC : An Interdisciplinary Study of Hematite, Goethite and Magnetite Objects.
title_auth Iron Oxide Rock Artefacts in Mesopotamia C. 2600-1200 BC : An Interdisciplinary Study of Hematite, Goethite and Magnetite Objects.
title_alt Iron Oxide Rock Artefacts in Mesopotamia C. 2600-1200 BC
title_new Iron Oxide Rock Artefacts in Mesopotamia C. 2600-1200 BC :
title_sort iron oxide rock artefacts in mesopotamia c. 2600-1200 bc : an interdisciplinary study of hematite, goethite and magnetite objects.
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contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. General introduction -- 1.1 Background -- Text-based approach -- 1.2 Aim and outline of the research -- 1.3 Dissemination of the results -- 2. Formation, mineralogy and occurrence of iron oxide rocks -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Mineral properties of iron oxide rocks and recognizing iron oxide rocks in the field -- 2.3 Formation of iron oxide rocks -- 2.4 The occurrence of iron oxide rocks in and around Mesopotamia -- 2.5 Summary and conclusions -- 3. The archaeological evidence - a qualitative approach -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Raw iron oxide rocks in excavations -- 3.3 Type of objects made out of iron oxide rocks -- 3.3.1 Seals -- 3.3.2 Balance weights -- 3.3.3 Miscellaneous iron oxide rock artefacts -- 3.3.4 Summary of the artefact types -- 3.4 Production of artefacts -- 3.4.1 Summary of the production process -- 3.5 Summary and conclusions -- 4. The archaeological evidence - a quantitative approach -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Lay-out of the database -- 4.2.1 Labels -- 4.2.2 Regions -- 4.2.3 Date in years vs. periods -- 4.3 Assessment of the database -- 4.3.1 Artefacts left out of the analyses -- 4.4 Artefacts per period -- 4.5 Artefacts per period per context -- 4.6 Artefacts per period per region -- 4.7 Sizes of the artefacts and the half fabricates -- 4.7.1 Sizes of the artefacts -- 4.7.2 Sizes of the half- fabricates -- 5. Hematite - the evidence from the cuneiform sources -- 5.2.1 NA4KA.GI.NA, NA4KUR-nu and šadānu -- 5.2.2 Writing -- 5.2.3 Ḫusarum not hematite -- 5.2.4 The illness šadānu -- 5.3 The textual sources -- 5.3.1 Texts mentioning šadānu - not medical-magical -- 5.3.2 ḪAR-ra=ḫubullu: a Mesopotamian introduction to šadānu -- 5.3.3 Ninurta/Lugal-e -- 5.3.4 Astrological text.
5.3.5 Objects made of šadānu -- 5.3.6 The provenance of šadānu according to the texts -- 5.3.7 Šadānu ṣābitu and the earliest description of magnetism -- 5.3.8 Magical-medical texts -- 6. Material Analyses -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Aims -- 6.3 Previous research -- 6.4 Analysis of artefacts from three Dutch collections -- 6.4.1 Introduction -- 6.4.2 Materials and Methods -- 6.4.3 Results -- 6.4.4 Archaeological discussion -- 6.4.5 Discussion of the techniques applied for this research -- 6.5 Summary and conclusions -- 7. Conclusions and synthesis -- 7.2 Conclusions -- 7.2.1 Mineralogy and geology -- 7.2.2 Archaeology - a qualitative approach -- 7.2.3 Archaeology - a quantitative approach -- 7.2.4 Cuneiform sources -- 7.2.5 Archaeometry - Material analyses -- 7.3 Synthesis -- 7.4 Future research -- Summary -- Appendix I: Overview of Syrian and Mesopotamian history, and cylinder seal styles ca. 3000-1200 BC -- Appendix II: The Database -- Appendix III: Reference numbers used in the database -- Appendix IV: Concordance of artefacts from the De Liagre Böhl Collection -- Appendix V: Medical-magical texts mentioning iron oxide rock -- Appendix VI: Material analyses per artefact -- Figure 1.1: Area under study, with sites where iron oxide rock artefacts were found. -- Table 2.1: Terminology as used in the archaeological literature. -- Table 2.2: Iron oxides and oxide hydroxides. After Cornell and Schwertmann 1996, table 1.1. -- Table 2.3: Some mineralogical properties of hematite, goethite and magnetite. Based on Cornell and Schwertmann 1996. -- Figure 2.1: Example of clear carving: cylinder seal LB66 and its modern impression, height of the seal is 19mm. -- Figure 2.2: Colour variations in iron oxide rock artefacts -- from left to right, top to bottom: half fabricate/ weight APM10960, goethite, 25*20mm.
cylinder seal APM06370, hematite, 22*9mm -- cylinder seal APM06361, hematite + calcite, 23*9mm -- weight APM109 -- Table 2.4: Comparison of streaks and neutron diffraction (ND) data. See Chapter 6. -- Figure 2.3: Iron oxide minerals compared to Mohs scale and tools to determine hardness. -- Table 2.5: Hardness of stones used for cylinder seals and beads before and during the 2nd mill. BC. -- Figure 2.4: Flowchart for recognizing iron oxide rock artefacts in the field. -- Table 2.6: Iron oxide rocks and ores containing hematite, goethite and/or magnetite, classified by origin. Based on Cornell and Schwertmann 1996, pp.348-393. -- Figure 2.5: Piece of iron oxide rock from the vicinity of Tell Bazi, Syria, where the iron precipitated in cavities in the limestone rock. -- Figure 2.6: Outcrops of iron oxide rock in horizontal layers in the limestone matrix (see arrows) near Tell Bazi. -- Figure 2.7: Areas with iron oxide rock deposits. -- Table 2.7: Areas with iron oxide rock deposits. -- Figure 3.1: Sites where raw iron oxide rock was found. -- Figure 3.2: Hematite cylinders from Selenkahiye. After Van Loon 1969, III.1. -- Figure 3.3: Roughly cylinder-shaped or horn-shaped piece of raw goethite from the Tell Bazi area. -- 3.3 Type of objects made out of iron oxide rocks -- 3.3.1 Seals -- 3.3.2 Balance weights -- 3.3.3 Miscellaneous iron oxide rock artefacts -- 3.3.4 Summary of the artefact types -- Figure 3.4: Roughly duck weight-shaped piece of raw goethite from the vicinity of Tell Bazi. -- Table 3.1 Raw materials in excavations. -- Figure 3.5: Cylinder seal LB62 with its modern impression. -- Figure 3.6: Examples of sealing practices. From http://www.sabi-abyad.nl. -- Table 3.2: Recut seals in the database. See Appendix II. -- Table 3.3: Materials of seals in the British Museum and the Marcopoli Collection per period.
Table 3.4: Chronology of cylinder seal materials from the Marcopoli Collection After Teissier 1984: 335. -- Figure 3.7: Materials of seals in the British Museum and the Marcopoli Collection per period. After Teissier 1984 -- Collon 1986 -- Sax et al. 1993 -- Collon 2001 -- Sax et al. 2005. -- Figure 3.8: Sasanian stamp seal LB118 and its modern sealing. -- Figure 3.9: Bronze balance pans (A, diam. 96 mm) and weight stones (iron oxide rock examples D, E) found in Ugarit. From Schaeffer 1937, fig. 12. -- Figure 3.10: Depiction on a cylinder seal of weighing with a balance weight in front of Shamash. After Boehmer 1965, no. 1105. -- Table 3.6: A selection of weights from the database to demonstrate occurring shapes. -- Figure 3.11: A duck weight, APM01768 -- size: 23 x 11 x 11 mm -- weight: 5.82 grams. -- Table 3.7: Marked or inscribed weights in the database. See Appendix II. -- Figure 3.12: Pendant from Tell Billa, probably not iron oxide rock. Photo kindly provided by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. -- Table 3.8: Beads in the database. See Appendix II. -- Figure 3.13: Silver pendant inlaid with gold and hematite (Sb4884). Photo kindly provided by Deutsches Bergbaumuseum Bochum. -- Figure 3.14: Lion statuette TM.79.Q.339 from Ebla/Tell Mardikh. From Mazzoni 1980, fig. 29a-c. -- Figure 3.15: Possible goldsmiths' hammer from Ur, height 1.9 cm. From Ogden 1982, Pl.4.3. -- Figure 3.16: Not a touchstone, possibly a weight, from the Larsa hoard. From Arnaud et al. 1979, fig. 8. -- 3.4 Production of artefacts -- 3.4.1 Summary of the production process -- Figure 3.17: A cylindrical piece of iron oxide rock from the vicinity of Tell Bazi. -- Figure 3.18: Diagram of central perforation drilled from two sides. From Gwinnett and Gorelick 1981: 14. -- Figure 3.19: Diagram showing Larsen's formula for conicity ('Konizität'). From Larsen 1994: 53, Abb.7.
Figure 3.20: Bead making in India: the abrasive is being collected (A) while drilling and re-used as grinding slurry (B). From Possehl 1981, fig. 11. -- Figure 3.21: Technical innovations and iron oxide rock cylinder seals. -- 3.5 Summary and conclusions -- 4. The archaeological evidence - a quantitative approach -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Lay-out of the database -- 4.2.1 Labels -- 4.2.2 Regions -- 4.2.3 Date in years vs. periods -- 4.3 Assessment of the database -- 4.3.1 Artefacts left out of the analyses -- 4.4 Artefacts per period -- 4.5 Artefacts per period per context -- 4.6 Artefacts per period per region -- 4.7 Sizes of the artefacts and the half fabricates -- 4.7.1 Sizes of the artefacts -- 4.7.2 Sizes of the half- fabricates -- Table 4.1: Description of the labels of the database. -- Figure 4.1: Sites where iron oxide artefacts were found and their division into regions, see also Table 4.3. -- Table 4.2: Number of artefacts per type. -- Table 4.3: Sites per region, number of artefacts per site and per region, and grouping criteria per region. -- Table 4.4: Easily assignable date in years with period, including number of finds. -- Table 4.5: Date in years, not easily assigned to a period, with number of artefacts, to be divided over periods of 200 years. -- Table 4.6: Division of artefacts with a date in years 2000-1600. -- Table 4.7: Contexts of the artefacts with a date in years 1900 and 1600 BC. -- Table 4.8: Sites where the artefacts were found with a date in years 1900-1600 BC. -- Table 4.9: Division of artefacts with a date in years 1600-1300 BC. -- Figure 4.2: Percentages of provenanced and unprovenanced cylinder seals per period in the database. -- Figure 4.3: The number of finds before 2600 BC with the regions where they were found. -- Figure 4.4: The number of finds of 2600-2400 BC with the regions where they were found.
Figure 4.5: The number of finds of 2400-2200 BC with the regions where they were found.
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Iron oxide rock was very popular for weight stones and cylinder seals around 2000 BC. This research aims to determine the region of origin for the raw material, what made people start using iron oxide rock, and what led them to stop using it.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. General introduction -- 1.1 Background -- Text-based approach -- 1.2 Aim and outline of the research -- 1.3 Dissemination of the results -- 2. Formation, mineralogy and occurrence of iron oxide rocks -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Mineral properties of iron oxide rocks and recognizing iron oxide rocks in the field -- 2.3 Formation of iron oxide rocks -- 2.4 The occurrence of iron oxide rocks in and around Mesopotamia -- 2.5 Summary and conclusions -- 3. The archaeological evidence - a qualitative approach -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Raw iron oxide rocks in excavations -- 3.3 Type of objects made out of iron oxide rocks -- 3.3.1 Seals -- 3.3.2 Balance weights -- 3.3.3 Miscellaneous iron oxide rock artefacts -- 3.3.4 Summary of the artefact types -- 3.4 Production of artefacts -- 3.4.1 Summary of the production process -- 3.5 Summary and conclusions -- 4. The archaeological evidence - a quantitative approach -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Lay-out of the database -- 4.2.1 Labels -- 4.2.2 Regions -- 4.2.3 Date in years vs. periods -- 4.3 Assessment of the database -- 4.3.1 Artefacts left out of the analyses -- 4.4 Artefacts per period -- 4.5 Artefacts per period per context -- 4.6 Artefacts per period per region -- 4.7 Sizes of the artefacts and the half fabricates -- 4.7.1 Sizes of the artefacts -- 4.7.2 Sizes of the half- fabricates -- 5. Hematite - the evidence from the cuneiform sources -- 5.2.1 NA4KA.GI.NA, NA4KUR-nu and &amp;#x161;ad&amp;#x101;nu -- 5.2.2 Writing -- 5.2.3 &amp;#x1E2A;usarum not hematite -- 5.2.4 The illness &amp;#x161;ad&amp;#x101;nu -- 5.3 The textual sources -- 5.3.1 Texts mentioning &amp;#x161;ad&amp;#x101;nu - not medical-magical -- 5.3.2 &amp;#x1E2A;AR-ra=&amp;#x1E2B;ubullu: a Mesopotamian introduction to &amp;#x161;ad&amp;#x101;nu -- 5.3.3 Ninurta/Lugal-e -- 5.3.4 Astrological text.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="8" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">5.3.5 Objects made of &amp;#x161;ad&amp;#x101;nu -- 5.3.6 The provenance of &amp;#x161;ad&amp;#x101;nu according to the texts -- 5.3.7 &amp;#x160;ad&amp;#x101;nu &amp;#x1E63;&amp;#x101;bitu and the earliest description of magnetism -- 5.3.8 Magical-medical texts -- 6. Material Analyses -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Aims -- 6.3 Previous research -- 6.4 Analysis of artefacts from three Dutch collections -- 6.4.1 Introduction -- 6.4.2 Materials and Methods -- 6.4.3 Results -- 6.4.4 Archaeological discussion -- 6.4.5 Discussion of the techniques applied for this research -- 6.5 Summary and conclusions -- 7. Conclusions and synthesis -- 7.2 Conclusions -- 7.2.1 Mineralogy and geology -- 7.2.2 Archaeology - a qualitative approach -- 7.2.3 Archaeology - a quantitative approach -- 7.2.4 Cuneiform sources -- 7.2.5 Archaeometry - Material analyses -- 7.3 Synthesis -- 7.4 Future research -- Summary -- Appendix I: Overview of Syrian and Mesopotamian history, and cylinder seal styles ca. 3000-1200 BC -- Appendix II: The Database -- Appendix III: Reference numbers used in the database -- Appendix IV: Concordance of artefacts from the De Liagre Böhl Collection -- Appendix V: Medical-magical texts mentioning iron oxide rock -- Appendix VI: Material analyses per artefact -- Figure 1.1: Area under study, with sites where iron oxide rock artefacts were found. -- Table 2.1: Terminology as used in the archaeological literature. -- Table 2.2: Iron oxides and oxide hydroxides. After Cornell and Schwertmann 1996, table 1.1. -- Table 2.3: Some mineralogical properties of hematite, goethite and magnetite. Based on Cornell and Schwertmann 1996. -- Figure 2.1: Example of clear carving: cylinder seal LB66 and its modern impression, height of the seal is 19mm. -- Figure 2.2: Colour variations in iron oxide rock artefacts -- from left to right, top to bottom: half fabricate/ weight APM10960, goethite, 25*20mm.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="8" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">cylinder seal APM06370, hematite, 22*9mm -- cylinder seal APM06361, hematite + calcite, 23*9mm -- weight APM109 -- Table 2.4: Comparison of streaks and neutron diffraction (ND) data. See Chapter 6. -- Figure 2.3: Iron oxide minerals compared to Mohs scale and tools to determine hardness. -- Table 2.5: Hardness of stones used for cylinder seals and beads before and during the 2nd mill. BC. -- Figure 2.4: Flowchart for recognizing iron oxide rock artefacts in the field. -- Table 2.6: Iron oxide rocks and ores containing hematite, goethite and/or magnetite, classified by origin. 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