The pottery production from the Deh Dumen Bronze Age graveyard (South-Western Iran): a chemical, mineralogical and physical study

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Table 1 Elemental chemical composition of the pottery samples, expressed as major oxides (in wt%). LOI stands for loss on ignition

	Sample code	Type	SiO₂	Al₂O₃	Fe₂O₃	MnO	MgO	CaO	Na₂O	K₂O	TiO₂	P₂O₅	LOI
LCC	318	TYPE-2	59.07	16.05	8.11	0.14	2.70	2.99	0.87	2.29	0.99	0.29	6.50
	323	TYPE-2	56.59	17.88	9.11	0.12	2.04	3.69	0.85	2.10	1.08	0.33	6.21
	324	TYPE-2	54.44	18.22	8.83	0.08	3.66	3.69	0.87	2.46	0.91	0.23	6.62
	326	TYPE-2	53.80	18.01	7.89	0.12	1.73	5.98	0.70	1.78	1.16	0.36	8.46
	328	TYPE-1	54.50	29.95	5.50	0.01	0.96	2.83	0.11	1.61	1.34	0.16	3.04
	330	TYPE-2	57.83	16.05	7.88	0.12	2.42	4.18	0.95	2.22	0.94	0.29	7.12
	332	TYPE-2	51.65	35.55	4.48	0.01	0.87	1.28	0.07	0.78	1.87	0.12	3.31
	334	TYPE-2	54.73	15.62	8.24	0.12	3.23	5.16	0.59	1.98	0.95	0.22	9.14
	338	TYPE-2	51.97	27.19	5.25	0.01	0.89	4.51	0.19	0.78	1.37	0.13	7.71
	341	TYPE-2	58.74	16.89	8.92	0.14	2.61	2.78	0.75	2.10	1.07	0.38	5.61
	346	TYPE-2	57.65	14.17	8.60	0.17	3.78	5.95	0.92	2.14	0.93	0.56	5.14
	347	TYPE-2	59.79	16.72	8.25	0.13	3.31	3.51	0.75	2.12	1.10	0.28	4.05
HCC	163	TYPE-1	43.91	11.34	5.82	0.08	5.02	21.70	0.85	0.70	0.68	0.20	9.69
	319	TYPE-2	41.80	25.14	6.67	0.01	1.15	7.61	0.08	0.38	1.24	0.17	15.76
	322	TYPE-1	48.36	15.95	8.17	0.06	5.52	10.48	0.54	0.87	0.88	0.33	8.84
	325	TYPE-2	49.78	15.62	7.40	0.07	5.05	12.63	0.15	1.13	0.77	0.26	7.13
	329	TYPE-1	47.23	14.96	8.14	0.10	6.77	13.95	0.17	0.54	0.88	0.29	6.96
	331	TYPE-1	53.95	14.98	7.28	0.13	3.17	8.28	0.48	1.88	0.92	0.46	8.47
	336	TYPE-1	45.32	15.29	8.10	0.10	4.82	16.58	0.36	1.01	0.89	0.22	7.30
	337	TYPE-2	48.44	16.00	8.03	0.11	3.79	12.69	0.19	1.33	0.99	0.20	8.22
	340	TYPE-1	52.96	16.92	8.78	0.15	3.93	8.27	0.18	0.94	1.09	0.32	6.46
	342	TYPE-2	52.30	14.29	6.96	0.12	3.24	8.78	0.75	1.88	0.92	0.22	10.53
	344	TYPE-1	49.46	13.44	6.65	0.07	3.31	14.32	0.37	1.52	0.79	0.33	9.74
	345	TYPE-2	55.16	15.96	7.32	0.06	2.80	6.08	0.60	2.02	0.93	0.22	8.85