TY - JOUR AU - Miazga, Beata AU - Rodak, Sylwia AU - Lucejko, Jeannette Jacqueline AU - Ribechini, Erika PY - 2020/12/16 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - A unique early medieval pendant (kaptorga) from Opole Groszowice (Silesia, SW Poland) in the light of interdisciplinary archaeometric studies JF - Sprawozdania Archeologiczne JA - Spraw. Arch. VL - 72 IS - 2 SE - Field Survey and Materials DO - 10.23858/SA/72.2020.2.2015 UR - https://journals.iaepan.pl/sa/article/view/2015 SP - AB - <p>Finds of early medieval pendants, known as kaptorgas, are not common in Poland. For this reason, the <em>kaptorga</em> found in 1957 in Opole (Silesia), in southwest Poland, is all the more interesting. The artefact is housed in a museum, and on the occasion of its re-conservation, permission to conduct archaeometric studies was given. The <em>kaptorga</em> was subjected to analyses using nondestructive and minimally invasive techniques. Elemental tests with energy dispersive XRF and SEM-EDS spectrometers showed that the pendant is made of brass, not bronze sheet, as was originally thought. In its filling, there is a small fragment of plant-fiber thread (subjected to microscopic observations) and beeswax, which was identified using infrared spectroscopy and gas chromatography with a mass spectrometer.</p> ER -