A journey of over 200 years: early studies on wootz ingots and new evidence from Konasamudram, India

Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI:10.1016/j.aia.2021.04.002

S. Jaikishan , Meghna Desai , Th. Rehren

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Recent new evidence emerged from the crucible steel production site of Konasamudram, Telangana, India. A hoard of 60 crucible steel ingots from this site offers a unique opportunity to study details of the early large-scale production of this fabled material, beginning with a detailed documentation of the weights and sizes of 45 of them. Historically, Konasamudram has been an important pre-modern crucible steel manufacturing and trading centre in India, as reported by Persian and European travelogues, and may have been the source of many of the early ingots studied during the past 200 years. The aim of this work is to present a dimensional analysis of these ingots and interpret the data in the context of earlier studies, to address questions of consistency in manufacturing, standardization of weights and other physical attributes. The newly-discovered ingots show considerable uniformity in shape, size and weights, indicative of a single production event during the heydays of crucible steel making, while the ingots previously reported in the literature vary much more widely.

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200多年的旅程：印度Konasamudram对wootz锭的早期研究和新证据

最近的新证据出现在印度特伦甘纳Konasamudram的坩埚钢生产现场。该遗址的60块坩埚钢锭为研究这种传说中材料的早期大规模生产细节提供了一个独特的机会，首先要详细记录其中45块的重量和尺寸。历史上，正如波斯和欧洲游记所报道的那样，Konasamudram一直是印度重要的前现代坩埚钢制造和贸易中心，并且可能是过去200年中研究的许多早期钢锭的来源。这项工作的目的是对这些铸锭进行尺寸分析，并在早期研究的背景下解释数据，以解决制造的一致性、重量标准化和其他物理属性的问题。新发现的钢锭在形状、尺寸和重量上表现出相当大的均匀性，这表明在坩埚炼钢的鼎盛时期发生了一次单一的生产事件，而文献中先前报道的钢锭变化要大得多。

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