Elena Salinas- PhD
- Professor at University of Almería
Elena Salinas
- PhD
- Professor at University of Almería
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Elena Salinas (Ph.D., University of Córdoba, Spain, 2012) is a historian and archaeologist, specialist in the material culture of al-Andalus. She is a junior lecturer in Medieval history at the University of Almería (Spain). She has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC-BarcelonaTech) with thee project "the Introduction of the glaze in al-Andalus: technological waves and Oriental influences" (2016-2018), funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.
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The analysis of Fatimid polychrome white-opaque glazed ware found at the archaeological sites of Bir Ftouha and Utica (Ifriqiya) revealed that, contrary prevailing belief, the glazes were successfully opacified with quartz rather than tin oxide (cassiterite) particles. This led us to hypothesise that the use of cassiterite to opacify the glazes in...
A group of a well-known polychrome glazed ceramic, widespread in the western Mediterranean in the eleventh and first half of the twelfth centuries, has been analysed for the first time using Optical Microscopy (OM) and a Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FE-SEM) with Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS), in order to shed some light...
This paper offers an analysis of a group of glazed ceramics that comes from El Tolmo de Minateda site and have been dated in the second half of the ninth century and beginning of the tenth century, before the proclamation of the Umayyad Caliphate by Abderraman III (929 CE). Three technological groups have been distinguished: transparent glazes of o...
A small group of ceramics from the archaeological excavations at Tahert (Algeria), the seat of the Rustamid dynasty in the 9th-early 10th centuries, has been studied for the first time by OM, SEM-EDS and micro X-ray diffraction. The ceramics belong to the earliest glazed pottery workshop found in North Africa, as other earlier or contemporary works...
En los últimos años se ha investigado la tecnología de producción del vidriado altomedieval en la Península Ibérica con el objetivo de comprender su origen, ya que, tras la época romana, la ceramica vidriada deja de producirse en Iberia. Para ello, se ha estudiado la cadena operativa en la producción de la cerámica vidriada en al-Andalus, concretam...
Excavations in the former Roman port of Utica (North Tunisia) by the University of Oxford and the INP (Tunisie) have revealed an area of medieval Islamic houses in the area of the Roman forum. Stratified sequences of pottery have established four main phases of occupation which would appear to span the mid-10th to mid-11th century. The range of gla...
A representative selection of glazed ceramics recovered from medieval Islamic contexts excavated in the former Roman port of Utica (North Tunisia) (23 of 99 pieces) has revealed new data about medieval glaze technologies in the central Mediterranean. Stratified sequences of pottery have established four main phases of occupation which span the mid-...
En este capítulo se examinan aspectos relacionados
con la fabricación y consumo de cerámicas
vidriadas andalusíes de un cierto carácter suntuario:
el inicio de las producciones vidriadas en
al-Andalus en el siglo ix; los cambios tecnológicos
en la producción del vidriado, con la adquisición
de nuevas técnicas y decoraciones, a lo largo
de los siglo...
A representative selection of glazed ceramics recovered from medieval Islamic contexts excavated in the former Roman port of Utica (North Tunisia) has revealed new data about medieval glaze technologies in the central Mediterranean. Stratified sequences of pottery have established four main phases of occupation which span the mid-10th to the mid-11...
It has long been assumed that lead glazing technology preceded glassmaking in the Western world and that the technological transfer was from glazes to glass. Here, we present new evidence for the reverse, the indigenous innovation of glassmaking and its transfer to glazes in early Islamic al-Andalus (Spain). Compositional analyses show that Islamic...
En este artículo se propone una revisión de las primeras cerámicas vidriadas andalusíes. A partir de análisis arqueométricos se caracterizan los primeros vidriados, se tratan los problemas de conservación y alteración de estas producciones y se identifican las diferentes tradiciones tecnológicas que convivieron a finales del emirato en Córdoba. Ade...
The production of polychrome decorated ceramics began in Ifriqiya in the 9th century under Aghlabid rule, with continuity during the 10th century under the Fatimids. These comprised finely painted brown and green designs with a characteristic yellow background (a transparent lead glaze containing iron oxide). This production was substituted in the...
The first workshop evidence of the Caliphate polychrome tin-glaze production known as ‘verde y manganeso’ in al-Andalus has been found in the Cordoban workshops area. This study reports on the analysis of recovered firing debris and workshop items and the tin glaze production chaîne opèratoire using SEM-EDS and μ-XRD analysis. The findings reveal t...
The introduction of the glaze in al-Andalus: Technological waves and Oriental influences — ERRATUM - Elena Salinas, Trinitat Pradell
This research develops a much-needed approach to the study of glazed ware production in al-Andalus (Muslim Spain and Portugal) during the early Middle Ages. The introduction of glaze to the Iberian Peninsula was a long and complex process involving three waves of technology transfer arriving from the eastern Islamic regions between the ninth and el...
RESUMEN. En este trabajo se realiza una aproximación a los hornos y alfares islámicos cordobeses, especialmente a raíz de los hallazgos de los últimos años. Se han analizado aspectos como la distinta tipología de los hornos cordobeses, su evolución a través de los siglos islámicos-desde época emiral a almohade-, la ubicación de las distintas áreas...
A representative selection of early Islamic glazed ceramics from Egypt, with yellow and/or green as major colours and spanning the period from 8th to 11th centuries has been studied. Following the production of Coptic Glazed Ware in 8th century, in which lead stannate was used to produce an opaque yellow glaze side by side with brown and green tran...
The study and analysis of the materials found in one of the earliest Islamic glazed ceramics workshop in al-Andalus (Pechina) dating from the second half of the 9th century, including fritting vessels, kiln furniture, wasters and slags, and a glass chunk, have revealed the materials used and methods of production. Galena was oxidised to obtain PbO...
A small group of opaque yellow glazed sherds has recently been identified among the ceramics excavated at the Islamic city of Madīnat al-Zahrā’ near Cordoba, in al-Andalus (southern Spain), which was founded in 936 AD as the seat of the Umayyad Caliphate power. A small group of sherds from Madīnat al-Zahrā’, which can be dated to about 960–980 AD,...
This research project is designed to develop a much-needed approach to the study of glaze ware production in al-Andalus (Spain and Portugal) during the Middle Ages (9th-13th centuries). The introduction of the glaze in the Iberian Peninsula was a complex and long process involving several waves of technology transfer arriving from the Eastern to th...
The earliest glazed ware in al-Andalus is dated to the Emiral period (c. 850–875 CE) and is not until the Caliphate of Córdoba (929–1031 CE) that a distinctive polychrome tin glaze started being produced. A short transition period (c. 875–925 CE) in which elaborate monochrome and bichrome transparent glazes wares coexist with polychrome transparent...
This workshop aims to meet and discuss the development of glaze technology in the Western Mediterranean, during medieval and modern times, and technology transfers between Islamic and Christian traditions from an interdisciplinary perspective. The presentations may cover topics related to glazed ceramics.
A continuacion se presenta una aproximacion a la ceramica vidriada cordobesa de epoca emiral. En primer lugar, se realiza un breve recorrido por los escasos hallazgos exhumados y publicados en Cordoba (Espana). Seguidamente se estudia un conjunto de especial interes por tratarse de un contexto cerrado, datado entre finales del siglo IX y principios...
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Este es un estudio de cerámica de época medieval islámica procedente de diecisiete excavaciones arqueológicas de Córdoba (España). El periodo cronológico que abarca es desde el inicio de la etapa Taifa (1031) hasta la conquista de la ciudad por los cristianos (1236), con especial incidencia en la etapa a...
Los contextos cerámicos almohades en el recinto fortificado de la calahorra (córdoba) 1035 Actas del VIII Congreso Internacional de Cerámica Medieval. Ciudad Real (2009) TOMO II / 1035-1040 Palabras clave: Almohade, Córdoba, fortaleza de la Calahorra. Resumen: De cara a confeccionar una cronotipología fiable de la cerámica postcalifal cordobesa pre...
En este trabajo presentamos un conjunto ce-rámico procedente de un muladar postcalifal de la zona de al-Sarqiyya, situada inmediatamente al este de la Medina de Qurtuba, con una cronología del siglo XI. El conjunto presenta características que se alejan de los modelos califales
La intervención arqueológica desarrollada en las proximidades de la puerta meridional de entrada a la ciudad, una vez atravesado el denominado “puente romano”, se ubica en un lugar de gran valor estratégico, económico y comercial. Los contextos cerámicos estudiados son un ejemplo excepcional de la vajilla y ajuar doméstico de los siglos V y VI en e...
En este trabajo presentamos los resultados obtenidos en la I.A.U. realizada en el Parque de Miraflores y en el Centro de Congresos de Córdoba (2001-2003). Entre los restos arqueológicos documentados destacan las estructuras de época emiral identificadas como parte del denominado arrabal de Saqunda, en cuya descripción y análisis nos centraremos. In...
Durante la I.A.U. desarrollada en los años 2001–2002 se localizó parte del primer arrabal emiral de Qurtuba (finales s. VIII – inicios s. IX d.C.), mencionado en los textos literarios como el arrabal de Saqunda o alrabad. El copioso material cerámico recogido junto a su buen estado de conservación, ha permitido realizar un primer análisis para apro...
In this article we present a collection of roman glass objects which form part of' the funerary offerings of various tombs discovered in a section of the Northern necropolis of Colonia Patricia, which was excavated during the Archaeological Rescue Intervention Plan Especial Manzana de Banesto. En este trabajo presentamos un conjunto de vidrios roma...
