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‘Atiqot 80 (2015)
ISBN 2948-040X
Chemical and Isotopic Study of Lead-Based Objects from a Late Roman Tomb on Sallah ed-Din Street, Jerusalem
(pp. 133–138)
Irina Segal
Keywords: metallurgy, copper, tin, Greece, Turkey, Spain, France, West Cumbria, Durham, mining districts
Several lead-based artifacts, discovered in a cist tomb (T2200) within the Late Roman-period cemetery on Sallah ed-Din Street, were analyzed in order to elucidate their chemical composition and provenance. The chemical composition of some of the objects seems to point to a mining source located in central Britain. It seems reasonable to suggest that soldiers of the Roman army brought these lead objects to Jerusalem.