ABSTRACT
The study of metal objects from Royal Palace G presented in the contribution is part of a wide multidisciplinary project of archaeometric analyses, concerning several typologies of materials dating from the Early Bronze Age IVA. Ten golden objects and one bronze dagger have been analyzed on site in a totally nondestructive way in order to determine their alloy composition, metalworking technique, and operational processes. The alloy composition of the last findings is comparable to that of the four laminas found on the floor of room L.2890 of Royal Palace G, and analyzed by Palmieri and Hauptmann by scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy dispersive spectroscopy. In fact, Palmieri and Hauptmann performed an inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy analysis on metal extracted by micro-drilling the inner part of the objects, while the energy dispersive Xray fluorescence analyses of the dagger were performed directly on its corroded surface.
