Outreach

Practical guidelines for the classification of vitreous materials

By Maria Kaparou and Artemios Oikonomou

UNDERWAY

Myc-MVP merges multidisciplinary expertise to study Mycenaean vitreous materials using X-ray and Ion-beam technology offering a tool for their accurate taxonomy. This collaborative effort bridges science, archaeology, and conservation, offering a holistic view. The resulting handbook is an invaluable tool in situ, in museums, and in the lab.

Blast from the Glass: Provenance, Occurrence, Corrosion and Preservation (Late Bronze Age to Pre-Roman Times)
Session organized by Artemios Oikonomou, Maria Kaparou and Melina Smirniou at the Annual Meeting of the European Asssociation of Archaeologists in Belfast (30th August-2nd September 2023).
The central themes to this session revolve around provenance, occurrence and the role of vitreous materials in the Late Bronze Age towards pre-Roman times in Europe, the Mediterranean, Egypt and the Near East, alongside corrosion and preservation issues.

Science behind taxonomy: decoding Mycenean vitreous artefacts’ degradation
Oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the European Asssociation of Archaeologists in Belfast (30th August-2nd September 2023).
Artemios Oikonomou, Maria Kaparou and Andreas G. Karydas.

Mycenaean vitreous artifacts: Overcoming taxonomy hurdles via analysis
Oral presentation at the 8th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry in Athens (17th-20th October 2023)
Maria Kaparou, Artemios Oikonomou, Konstantinos Nikolentzos, Dimitrios F. Anagnostopoulos, Andreas G. Karydas.

Overcoming Taxonomy hurdles in the study of Mycenaean Vitreous Materials Using Accelerator-based techniques: Management of particularly fragile objects

Oral presentation in the “Joint IAEA-University of Paris-Saclay Workshop on the Safe Analysis of Heritage Objects and Materials Using Novel Accelerator-based Analytical Techniques”, organised by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (13th-17th November 2023).

Maria Kaparou, Artemios Oikonomou and Andreas G. Karydas.

Study of glass degradation on Mycenaean glass artifacts using large area μ-XRF scanning (MA-XRF)

Oral presentation in 4th International Congress on Archaeological Sciences in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (ICAS-EMME) in Cyprus (15-18 May 2024).

Artemios Oikonomou, Maria Kaparou, Kalliopi Tsampa, Anastasios Asvestas, Andreas G. Karydas, Dimitrios Anagnostopoulos

A study on the degradation of Mycenaean Vitreous Artefacts via X-rays and Ion Beam teechniques

Poster presentation in the 4th International Congress on Archaeological Sciences in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (ICAS-EMME) in Cyprus (15-18 May 2024).

Maria Kaparou, Artemios Oikonomou, Kalliopi Tsampa, Konstantinos Nikolentzos, Katia Manteli, Aikaterini Voutsa, Georgianna Moraitou, Andreas G. Karydas

New Insights into the Degradation of Mycenaean Vitreous Artifacts Using X-ray and Ion-Beam Techniques

Poster presentation in the European X-ray Spectrometry Conference 2024, Athens, 24-28 June, 2024.

Maria Kaparou, Artemios Oikonomou, Kalliopi Tsampa and Andreas G. Karydas

Application of X-rays in Cultural Heritage

Participation at the Athens Science Festival (11th October 2023) presenting portable X-ray instrumentation in the study of Cultural Heritage and in particular in the study of vitreous materials within the framework of the 3rd Call for Postdoctoral Researchers of HFRI and Myc-MVP project.

Artemios Oikonomou, Maria Kaparou and Andreas G. Karydas.