Petrographic-Mineralogical Characterization of Archaeological Materials from “Casa di Diana” Mithraeum Sited in the Open Museum of Ostia Antica
dc.contributor.author | Scatigno, Claudia | |
dc.contributor.author | Preite Martinez, Maria | |
dc.contributor.author | Prieto Taboada, Nagore | |
dc.contributor.author | Madariaga Mota, Juan Manuel | |
dc.contributor.author | Conte, Aida Maria | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-08-02T10:41:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-08-02T10:41:30Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-06-20 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Crystals 11(7) : (2021) // Article ID 839 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 2073-4352 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/52621 | |
dc.description.abstract | Mithraea, religious Roman buildings, are very common in Italian archeological sites. There are sixteen in Ostia Antica (Rome, Italy)The poor state of conservation, due to the intrinsic environmental conditions, characterized them: they consist of open-air museums and caves simultaneously. These places of worship are characterized by the presence of heterogeneous materials, such as wall building materials (bricks and mortars) and others used for furnishings and fittings. This increases the risk of accelerated damage because the materials ‘rheology is different. Here, a full petrographic-mineralogical characterization with polarized light microscopy (PLM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope with energy dispersive X-ray (SEM-EDS) and isotopic analysis (δ13C, δ18O) is carried out on materials like travertine, marble, pumice, ceramic, and wall-building materials in “Casa di Diana” Mithraeum (Ostia Antica). Their characterization gives provenance information as well as conservation and restoration purposes. The prevalence of siliciclastic or carbonate components discriminates between red and yellow bricks, as well as different textures and minerals in the aggregate of the red ones. The mortars are typically pozzolanic, and the aggregate is mostly made up of black and red pozzolanic clasts. In the altar, apse, and aedicule, which constitute the principal place of the Mithraeum, a variety of materials used for the ornamental purpose are represented by pumices, travertine, marble, and limestone. The altar material, catalogued as marble, resulted in being a limestone coated with a white pigment. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work has been partially supported by the DEMORA (Grant No. PID2020-113391GB-I00) projects funded by the Spanish Agency for Research AEI (MINEICO/FEDER-UE). The authors wish to acknowledge professional support of the Interdisciplinary Thematic Platform from CSIC Open Heritage: Research and Society (PTI-PAIS). | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | MDPI | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/PID2020-113391GB-I00 | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ | |
dc.subject | Mithraeum | es_ES |
dc.subject | Ostia Antica | es_ES |
dc.subject | archaeological materials | es_ES |
dc.subject | petrography | es_ES |
dc.subject | X-ray diffraction | es_ES |
dc.subject | SEM-EDS | es_ES |
dc.title | Petrographic-Mineralogical Characterization of Archaeological Materials from “Casa di Diana” Mithraeum Sited in the Open Museum of Ostia Antica | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.date.updated | 2021-07-23T13:27:26Z | |
dc.rights.holder | 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | es_ES |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/11/7/839/htm | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/cryst11070839 | |
dc.departamentoes | Química aplicada | |
dc.departamentoes | Química analítica | |
dc.departamentoeu | Kimika aplikatua | |
dc.departamentoeu | Kimika analitikoa |
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