AN ARCHAEO-METALLURGICAL STUDY OF THE EARLY AND MIDDLE BRONZE AGE IN LURISTAN, IRAN

IF 0.2 0 ARCHAEOLOGY

Iranica Antiqua Pub Date : 2008-01-31 DOI:10.2143/IA.43.0.2024041

F. Begemann, E. Haerinck, B. Overlaet, S. Schmitt-Strecker, Françoise Tallon

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Abstract

Copper-base artefacts from Bronze Age Luristan have been analysed for their chemical composition and the isotopic composition of their lead. We find no significant systematic differences between a group of objects recovered in the Pusht- i Kuh region in the course of controlled excavations during the Belgian Archaeo- logical Mission in Iran (BAMI) and a second group of artefacts from the Louvre Museum which were acquired on the art market. According to these material fea- tures the objects from the art market are made of genuine "Luristan" metal which does not exclude the possibility that the artefacts are recent forgeries made of "old" metal. The data suggest a large fraction of the artefacts, copper and bronze, to derive from copper ores as they are available in the eastern part of the central Zagros Mountains from where also tin ores have been reported. Bronzes with high 206 Pb- normalized abundance ratios, conspicuous in contemporary Mesopotamia, are miss- ing in Luristan. We have no satisfactory explanation to offer why the manifold cultural and material connections between Mesopotamia and Luristan should have excluded the trade in bronzes with such exceptional lead isotopy.

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伊朗luristan青铜时代早期和中期的考古冶金研究

来自青铜时代Luristan的铜基人工制品被分析了它们的化学成分和铅的同位素组成。我们发现，在比利时驻伊朗考古任务(BAMI)的控制挖掘过程中，在Pusht- i Kuh地区发现的一组文物与在艺术市场上获得的卢浮宫博物馆的第二组文物之间没有明显的系统差异。根据这些材料特征，艺术品市场上的物品是由真正的“Luristan”金属制成的，这并不排除这些文物是由“旧”金属制成的近期伪造品的可能性。数据表明，大部分的人工制品，铜和青铜，来自铜矿石，因为在中部扎格罗斯山脉的东部有铜矿，那里也有锡矿的报道。具有高206pb标准化丰度比的青铜器，在当代美索不达米亚很明显，在鲁士坦却不见了。为什么美索不达米亚和卢里斯坦之间的多种文化和物质联系排除了具有如此特殊铅同位素的青铜器的贸易，我们没有令人满意的解释。

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Iranica Antiqua ARCHAEOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Iranica Antiqua is one of the leading scholarly journals covering studies on the civilization of pre-Islamic Iran in its broadest sense. This annual publication, edited by the Department for Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at Gent University, Belgium, contains preliminary excavation reports, contributions on archaeological problems, studies on different aspects of history, institutions, religion, epigraphy, numismatics and history of art of ancient Iran, as well as on cultural exchanges and relations between Iran and its neighbours.