Things that travelled Mediterranean glass in the first millennium CE
Recent research has demonstrated that, in the Roman, Late Antique, Early Islamic and Medieval worlds, glass was traded over long distances, from the Eastern Mediterranean, mainly Egypt and Israel, to Northern Africa, the Western Mediterranean and Northern Europe. 'Things that travelled', a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
UCL Press
2018, 2018
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Table of Contents:
- IntroductionHIMT
- compositional characteristics; Materials and methods; Results; Discussion; Glass composition and the addition of manganese; Commodity branding in the primary glass industry; The origins and distribution of HIMT; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 9 Consumption, working and trade of Late Antique glass from north Adriatic Italy: An archaeometric perspective; Introduction; Sites and materials; Sites; Materials; Analytical methods; Results and discussion; Compositional groups; HIMT; Levantine 1; Serie 3.2; Links between types and compositional groups; Isotope analysis
- Intro; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Foreword; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of Contributors; 1 A special group of early Christian glass 'gems' from Greece; Introduction; Glass workshop in Vasileos Irakleiou 44, Thessaloniki; Distribution range; Solinos; Ierissos; Fourka; Louloudies; Dion; Velika; Constantinople; Other sites; Uses; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 2 Gold-glasses: From their origin to Late Antiquity in the Mediterranean; Introduction; Object of the study; Late Classical period; Hellenistic period; Late Hellenistic and early Roman period
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Late Roman periodMethodology for further work; Preliminary results; Conclusion; Appendix A; References; 3 A Late Antique manganese-decolourised glass composition: Interpreting patterns and mechanisms of distribution; Introduction; Materials; Characteristics of the chemical glass composition; Chronology, patterns and mechanisms of distribution; Mn-decolourised Late Antique composition and Seŕie 2.1; Acknowledgements; References; 4 Glass production and consumption in Cyprus in Late Antiquity (fourth-seventh century ce); Introduction
- Impact of sea currents and wind-driven circulations on the distribution of glass in (Late) AntiquityObjectives; First results from study of the material; First results through archaeometric study; Single melting event; Conclusion; References; 5 Things that travelled: Precious things for special people?; Introduction; Emerald green glass and primary production; What flux was used for emerald green glass?; When and where was emerald green glass coloured?; Emerald green glass and secondary production; Discussion; Acknowledgements; References
- 6 Trading North: Glass-working beyond the edge of the empireIntroduction; Materials and analytical methods; Results and discussion; Opaque red glass; Opaque yellow glass; Blue glass; Clear glass; Other colours; Bead fabrication; Discussion and conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 7 Into Africa: The biography of Roman vessel glass in the Sahara Desert; Introduction; Manufacture and provenance; Trade and transport; Use and re-use; Curation, fetishism and discard; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 8 HIMT, glass composition and commodity branding in the primary glass industry