Isotopesin Vitreous Materials -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Isotopes in vitreous materials, a state-of-the-art and perspectives -- Introduction -- Possibilities: relevance of the technique -- Contributions in this volume -- Impossibilities: limitations of the technique -- Accessibility: new techniques -- Perspectives -- References -- Isotopic composition of glass from the Levant and the south-eastern Mediterranean Region -- Introduction -- Raw materials -- Neodymium isotopes -- Oxygen isotopes -- Lead isotopes -- Predictive provenancing: HIMT glass -- Comparison and discrimination: plant ash glass -- Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix: analytical methods -- Neodymium and strontium isotopes in the provenance determination of primary natron glass production -- Introduction -- Glass provenancing -- Glass provenancing and elemental analysis -- Glass provenancing and isotopes -- Methodology -- Sampling -- Chemical analysis -- Archaeological context -- Sagalassos -- Maastricht -- Kelemantia -- Bocholtz -- Tienen -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- The provenance of Syrian plant ash glass: an isotopic approach -- Introduction -- Glass production at al-Raqqa -- The principles of isotope analysis and how isotopes contribute -- Methodology -- Results -- Strontium -- Neodymium -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- The implications of lead isotope analysis for the source of pigments in Late Bronze Age Egyptian vitreous materials -- Introduction -- Results -- Pigments: Egyptian blue and green frit -- Glasses -- Faience -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Kelp in historic glass: the application of strontium isotope analysis -- Introduction.

Strontium isotopic ratios in nature and their use in geology and related disciplines -- Strontium isotope analysis of skeletal material -- Strontium isotope analysis of glass -- Where does the strontium in glass come from? -- Strontium in some post-medieval glass -- Samples and Methods -- Results -- Conclusion -- References -- Medieval and postmedieval Hispano-Moresque glazed ceramics: new possibilities of characterization by means of lead isotope ratio determination by Quadrupole ICP-MS -- Introduction -- Experimental -- Materials and methods -- Sample preparation -- Results and discussion -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- PLS Regression to Determine Lead Isotope Ratios of Roman Lead Glazed Ceramics by Laser Ablation TOF-ICP-MS -- Introduction -- Experimental -- PLS Modeling -- Standards -- Samples -- Instrumentation -- Data Reduction Procedures -- Results -- Calibration -- Lead-Glazed Samples -- Discussion -- Calibration -- Measurement of Lead Isotope Ratios of Roman Lead Glazes -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- List of Authors -- The Editors.