The Mineral Products of Melos in Antiquity and their Identification
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10965660 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jill Pittinger (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Pages | 191-197 |
| Publication date | 1975-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annual of the British School at Athens (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0068-2454 • E-ISSN: 2045-2403 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0068245400006614 |
| OpenAlex | W2043292988 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 1 |
According to literary sources, the various products of vulcanicity were in great demand for both manufacturing and medicinal purposes in the ancient world, as they are today. These include pumice, fuller's earth (a form of calcium montmorillonite ), sulphur, and the alumen of the Romans, which was probably aluminium sulphate , or a related substance. The island of Melos, in the Cyclades, was particularly noted in Antiquity for its mineral products, and in this brief article an attempt is made to summarize the references to these products by the various Greek and Roman authors, and to identify them and the people concerned with their mining and extraction in Antiquity, on the basis of recent geological and archaeological observations made by the author on the island
Archaeology · Bronze Age · CYCLADES · Geochemistry · Late Antiquity · Pumice · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Geology · History
Archaeometric constraints by multidisciplinary study of Richborough 527 amphorae and yellow clays from the C.da Portinenti pottery workshop (Lipari Island, Italy)
The nature of Melian alumen and its potential for exploitation in antiquity
Testing Greco-Roman medicinal minerals
Behind the mask − Archaeometric analysis of four gilded Romano-Egyptian mummy masks from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
From sagas to voyages
Geothermal activity at the archaeological site of Aghia Kyriaki and its significance to Roman industrial mineral exploitation on Melos, Greece
The Aghia Kyriaki, Melos survey
From mine to apothecary
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2025 (27) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |