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Maritime Archaeology Periodical

Nicolle Hirschfeld ve Seppi Lehner bakır külçeleri tasnif ediyor. (Fotoğraf: T. E. Littlefield)
Nicolle Hirschfeld and Seppi Lehner classify copper ingots. (photo by T. E. Littlefield)

In summer 2013, Lente Van Brempt, a student of lect good candidates for more extensive quantitative
Cypriot archaeometallurgist Vasiliki (Lina) Kassian- analysis. Team Gelidonya is grateful to the Brennan
idou, spent two months doing a preliminary sort and Foundation for funding this research.
identification of the ingot fragments, eventually pub- Analyses to be undertaken include ICP-MS (in-
lished as a chapter in her doctoral dissertation. ductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry), to be
An American-Turkish team comprised of two re- carried out at the KUYTAM laboratory of Koç Uni-
cent doctoral graduates, Emre Kuruçayırlı and Joseph versity, and other chemical and isotope analyses to in-
(Seppi) Lehner, picked up the baton in summer 2016 vestigate the sources of the ingot copper (and bronze).
and our archeometallurgical inquiry is now in full To examine the microstructure of the metal and thus
gear. Emre spent winter and spring 2017 constructing the process of its production, Emre and Seppi are tak-
a descriptive database of all ca. 1200 ingots and ingot ing core drillings for metallographic study, which will
fragments from the Cape Gelidonya shipwreck. In ad- also take place at the KUYTAM laboratory. The first
dition to noting condition, shape, dimensions, weight, round of analyses, scheduled for the end of August,
and tool marks, he has also scanned each artefact will be based on 77 samples selected from all types of
using XRF (x-ray fluorescence) in order to obtain a ingots and fragments. These results will then be used
preliminary insight into their chemical compositions. to devise a more extensive sampling program, in ad-
(This task is being completed even as this article is dition to the practical purpose of serving as the basis
being written). The XRF data will then be used to se- for grant proposals to support the larger endeavor.
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