Von Malachit zu Kupfer
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Rainer Nutz
Summary
Petrie describes in „Researches in Sinai“ an expedition into Serabit el-Khadim to extract minerals. Newer excavations in Ayn Soukhna allow insight into the reduction of malachite to copper. Reducing malachite to copper proves to be a very energy-intensive process. To obtain the necessary temperatures over a sufficiently long period of time a surprisingly high amount of charcoal has to be mixed with small-grained mineral under constant air supply. In dry climate wood grows comparatively slowly which translates into requirements of larger wooded areas to provide enough wood for the production of charcoal. This research paper aims at collecting pertinent data to improve the transparency of these processes. But only additional parameters will allow better models and help to paint a clearer picture.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- The Geographical and Administrative Landscape of Lower Middle Egypt in Text B of the Wilbour Papyrus
- New Fragments of Papyrus Berlin 3024
- Out of the mouths of babes: the -child in Ancient Egypt
- Ostrakon Amarna 297
- Haben Otto Neugebauer und William Feller die Niljahre richtig gemittelt?
- A Hypocephalus with Odd Iconography and Poor Writing in the Berlin Museum
- Von Malachit zu Kupfer
- Überlegungen zu Heinrich Schäfers Von ägyptischer Kunst und zu Hedwig Fechheimers Plastik der Aegypter
- Jean Clédat à Meir (1899–1901)
