Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Atiqot
Angaben zur Quelle:
110 (2023) 263-281
Keywords:
Inscriptions, French
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Furniture (Bookbinding)
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Atlit (Israel) Antiquities
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Eretz Israel History 1099-1291, Crusader period
Abstract:
A metal object found on the surface at the ‘Atlit Castle was identified as a book fitting. Although such mounts could have served other functions, such as inlays, belt or girdle mounts, this artifact was probably an anchor-plate, part of a book clasp for a medieval codex, possibly of religious content, bound in a leather cover. Visual testing inspection and SEM-EDS analysis of the book fitting have shown that the item was made of a heterogeneous composition of copper alloy. This book fitting joins a growing corpus of metal artifacts from the Latin East, establishing a metallurgical database for future comparative analysis of book fittings and similar artifacts. The identification of the item as a book fitting, and its plausible dating as a piece of medieval book furniture, supports its origin in the Frankish occupation of the site.
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