Study of Corrosion in archeological bronze pieces from Luristan province

Ahmadi, A.; Yuzbashi, A.A.; Shadmehr, A.; Sodagar, L.

doi:10.30501/jamt.2011.70222

Study of Corrosion in archeological bronze pieces from Luristan province

Authors

A. Ahmadi ¹

A.A. Yuzbashi ¹

A. Shadmehr

L. Sodagar ²

¹ Materials and Energy Research Center

² Reza Abbasi Museum

10.30501/jamt.2011.70222

Abstract

A study on a metal artifact from Luristan bronzes collection of Reza Abbassi Museum was carried out in order to determine the elemental composition, metallographic data and corrosion products. The sample under study is the head of an axe with a lion shape which looks to be a decoration Piece. The analytical technique used include scanning electron microscopy (SEM) for studing the microstructure, Inductively- coupled plasma (ICP-AES) for major as well as trace elemental analysis, and X-ray diffraction (XRD) for phase analysis. In this paper the results of corrosion study of this Luristan artifact are discussed and the conclusions were drawn accordingly.

Keywords

bronzes

archeological

corrosion

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