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 collaboration between the UCL Early Glass Technology Research Network, the Association for the History of Glass and the British Museum, aims to build on this knowledge.
Covering all aspects of glass production, technology, distribution and trade in Roman, Byzantine and Early Medieval/Early Islamic times, including studies from Britain, Egypt, Cyprus, Italy and many others, the volume combines the strengths of the sciences and cultural studies to offer a new approach to research on ancient glass. By bringing together such a varied mix of contributors, specialising in a range of geographical areas and chronological time frames, this volume also offers a valuable contribution to broader discussions on glass within political, economic, cultural and historical arenas.
Author(s): Daniela Rosenow, Matt Phelps, Andrew Meek, Ian Freestone (eds.)
Publisher: UCL Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: XXIV+392
City: London
List of figures ix
List of tables xvi
List of contributors xviii
1. A special group of early Christian glass 'gems' from Greece / Anastassios Ch. Antonaras 1
2. Gold-glasses: From their origin to Late Antiquity in the Mediterranean / Giulia Cesarin 22
3. A Late Antique manganese-decolourised glass
composition: Interpreting patterns and mechanisms of distribution / Anastasia Cholakova and Thilo Rehren 46
4. Glass production and consumption in Cyprus in Late Antiquity (fourth–seventh century CE) / Peter Cosyns and Andrea Ceglia 72
5. Things that travelled: Precious things for special people? / Sally Cottam and Caroline Jackson 92
6. Trading North: Glass-working beyond the edge of the empire / Mary Davis and Ian C. Freestone 107
7. Into Africa: The biography of Roman vessel glass in the Sahara Desert / Chloë N. Duckworth and David J. Mattingly 134
8. HIMT, glass composition and commodity branding in the primary glass industry / Ian C. Freestone, Patrick Degryse, James Lankton, Bernard Gratuze and J. Schneider 159
9. Consumption, working and trade of Late Antique glass from north Adriatic Italy: An archaeometric perspective / Sarah Maltoni, Filomena Gallo, Alberta Silvestri, Mariangela Vandini, Tania Chinni, Alessandra Marcante, Gianmario Molin and Enrico Cirelli 191
10. How clean is your (glass)house?: A Late Antique glass workshop at Pella in Jordan / Margaret O’Hea 215
11. Glass supply and trade in early Islamic Ramla: An investigation of the plant ash glass / Matt Phelps 236
12. A view from the South: Roman and Late Antique glass from Armant, Upper Egypt / Daniela Rosenow and Thilo Rehren 283
13. When things stopped travelling: Recycling and the glass industry in Britain from the first to fifth century CE / Victoria A. Sainsbury 324
14. Things that travelled: A review of the Roman glass from northern Adriatic Italy / Alberta Silvestri, Filomena Gallo, Sarah Maltoni, Patrick Degryse, Monica Ganio, Antonio Longinelli and Gianmario Molin 346
15. Patterns in production: The Wilshere Collection of gold-glass examined / Susan Walker, Andrew Shortland and Julian Henderson 368
Index 384
