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The Qatna lion: scientific confirmation of Baltic amber in late Bronze Age Syria

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: Using pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, the authors show that amber was imported into Late Bronze Age Syria and used for making the prestige artefacts found in a Royal tomb of c. 1340 BC. The objects included beads and a unique vessel in the form of a lion, likely fashioned in Syria from raw amber imported from the Baltic via the Aegean.

Source: Antiquity

DOI: 10.1017/s0003598x00096435

Authors: Anna J. Mukherjee, Elisa Roßberger, Matthew A. James, Peter Pfälzner, Catherine L. Higgitt, Raymond White, David A. Peggie, Dany Azar, Richard P. Evershed

Institutions: University of Bristol, The National Gallery, Lebanese University, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle

Language: English

Topic: Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis

Subfield: Archeology

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: Wellcome Trust, University of Oxford, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Natural Environment Research Council

OpenAlex ID: W2147961111

FWCI: 11.61

Cites: 30

Cited by: 69

Related to: 10