44118
Accession Number
23231
Author
Yamasaki, Kazuo
Title Of Article Chaper
Otani tankentai Tachibana Zuicho ga 1909-1988 nen Kashgar de eta garasuhen nadono Kagakuseibun ni tsuite
Title Of Journal Book
Kobunkazai no kagaku
Volume
34
Pages
52-56
Collation
1 photo., 1 fig.
Reference Bibliography
Includes 8 bibliog. refs.
ISSN
0368-6272
Language Of Text
Japanese
Language Of Summary
English
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
The glass fragments and beads excavated by a Japanese Buddhist priest, Zuicho Tachibana at the ruined sites near Kashgar, central Asia, in 1909-1911 were studied chemically in 1989. Relative density measurements and visual examination indicated that most of the beads were made of alkali-lime glasses. Two small fragments of glass vessels of unidentified shape were found by x-ray fluorescence analysis to be potash-lime glass. A porous black lump was analyzed by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry and found to be a slag-like substance. White crystals present in this black lump were revealed by x-ray diffraction (XRD) to be quartz crystals containing a small amount of cristobalite. This may indicate that these quartz crystals were heated to form cristobalite. Although exact dates and sites of the excavation of these glasses are unknown, this study may give some information to the archaeology of glass in central Asia.
Keywords
chemical;composition;glass;Kashgar;beads;alkali lime;X-ray fluorescence; potash lime CAL
pub_id
44118
Title Translation
On the chemical compositions of glass fragments excavated by Zuicho Tachibana, Otani Expedition member at Kashgar, 1909-1911
Title Of Journal Book Translated
Scientific papers on Japanese antiques and art crafts