I vaghi in vetro provenineti dalla necropoli di Ponte Nuovo

Several gìass materials from the Final Bronze Age (FBA) bave been found in the necropolis of Ponte Nuovo (Gazzo Veronese, near Verona). In the present work an eyed bead and a globular one, both ftotn tombZà, have been subjected to archaeometric analyses, The two samples taken from the blue bodies of the beads and the sample taken frorn the white decoration of the eyed bead have been analysed bya scanningelectron rnicroscopy combined with energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM -EDS); they are composed by glass containing nurnerous crystal inclusions. The crystalline phases have been identified by X-Ray diffraction (XRD) as quartz, in theglobulat bead, and tridymite, in the blue body of the eyed bead. The chemical data-cf theglass phases, obtained by electron probe micro analysis (EPMA), show that the glasses have a LMHK (Low Magnesium High Potassium) composition, typical of the European glasses. Unfortunately the white glass sample is strongly weathered, while the blue samples, both colourèd with copper, are welI preserved, In the present work the chemical, mineralogical and textutal data of the Ponte Nuovo finds afe discussed and rhoroughly compared with the few analyses availab1e inthe literature concerning coeval European objects with the, same typologj, and moreover with the available chemical data of FBA Italian glasses. The comparìson showsa high similarity between the glasses frorn Ponte Nuovo and the otber FBA glasses.