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Ancient Egyptian mirrors have received a great deal of attention for their cultural significance and connections to religious beliefs. However, in-depth investigations into their manufacture have been lacking with only a handful included in wider analyses. So how were mirrors manufactured? The preliminary metallurgical analysis presented here aims...
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... total nineteen mirror disks were analysed. Provenance information was available for 10 of the mirrors; their dates spanned from the Old Kingdom through to the Late Period and covered a large geographical area within Egypt (details can be seen in Table 1). Although not all of the mirrors have contextual information, data gathered from them can still be useful for general observations into how Egyptian mirrors were manufactured. ...Similar publications
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... The purpose of this paper is not to provide an interpretation of archaeologically relevant data related to diachronic technological changes, but to demonstrate how this adapted minimally destructive sampling and analytical method can be applied. For further discussion regarding the data itself see (Thomas, 2024). ...
... Generally, this will not be visible if the mirror is to be displayed. Although this paper focuses on only four mirrors, this minimally destructive sampling and analytical methodology was successfully applied to a large assemblage of 19 mirrors as part of a Master's thesis (Thomas, 2024). Further work is currently being undertaken as part of a PhD project (Thomas) that will incorporate a larger number of mirrors, data from which will become available upon completion. ...
Some metallurgical analyses have been conducted on Ancient Egyptian mirrors; however, both compositional and microstructural data are necessary in order to fully reconstruct the manufacturing sequences of these artefacts. Traditional sampling and analytical methods for researching metal artefacts have their limitations for investigating mirrors in particular; for example, a mounted 'V' cross-section is often not a viable sampling option as it is too visually destructive to a complete disk, and surface analysis only provides limited compositional data. These observations resulted in the adaptation of deep-filed edge abrasion sampling, based on coin studies, with SEM-EDX analyses for Egyptian mirrors. This paper will establish how the methodology gathers reliable compositional and microstructural data while remaining visually discreet. This study demonstrates the methodology on four mirrors varying in condition, shape, and size in comparison to the traditional mounted 'V' cross-section taken in the 1990s from the same specimens.
