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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828586603321

Titolo

Glass of the Roman world / / edited by Justine Bayley, Ian Freestone and Caroline Jackson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Oxbow Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78297-777-5

1-78297-775-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

666.10937

Soggetti

Glass - Rome

Glass manufacture - Rome

Glassware, Roman

Glassware industry - Rome

Material culture - Rome

Rome Antiquities Congresses

Rome Social life and customs Congresses

Rome Commerce Congresses

Rome Economic conditions Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"These 18 papers by renowned international scholars include studies of glass from Europe and the Near East."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements; Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Jennifer Price and her contribution to the study of Roman glass; Jennifer Price Publications; 1. Primary glass workshops in GraecoRomanEgypt: Preliminary report on the excavations of the site ofBeni Salama,Wadi Natrun (2003, 2005-9); 2. The Hambach glass production in the late Roman period; 3. A Gazetteer of glass working sites in Roman London; 4. Provenance studies and Roman glass; 5. The pontil in the Roman world: A preliminary survey; 6. Composition, technology and production of coloured glasses from Roman mosaic vessels

7. Roman glass from East to West8. Mould-blownbeakers with figurative scenes: New data on Narbonensis province; 9. Roman and



later glass from the Fezzan; 10. Some exceptional glass vessels from Caesarea Maritima; 11. Glass in the domestic space: Contextual analysis of Late Roman glass assemblages from Ephesus and Petra; 12. A Roman dionysiac cameo glass vase; 13. An unusual mould-blownbeaker from Barzan, southwestFrance; 14. Flat glass from Butrint and its surrounding areas, Albania; 15. Two wooden glazing bars found in Vindonissa (Switzerland) from the collection of the Swiss National Museum

16. The re-useof Roman glass fragments17. Roman enamels and enamelling; 18. Beyond the Channel! That's quite a different matter. A comparison of Roman black glass from Britannia,Gallia Belgica and Germania Inferior

Sommario/riassunto

"These 18 papers by renowned international scholars include studies of glass from Europe and the Near East. The authors write on a variety of topics where their work is at the forefront of new approaches to the subject. They both extend and consolidate aspects of our understanding of how glass was produced, traded and used throughout the Empire and the wider world drawing on chronology, typology, patterns of distribution, and other methodologies, including the incorporation of new scientific methods. Though focusing on a single material the papers are firmly based in its archaeological context in the wider economy of the Roman world, and consider glass as part of a complex material culture controlled by the expansion and contraction of the Empire"--Provided by publisher.