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An offprint from GLASS OF THE ROMAN WORLD Hardcover Edition ISBN 978-1-78297-774-2 Digital Edition ISBN 978-1-78297-775-9 Edited by Justine Bayley, Ian Freestone and Caroline Jackson © Oxbow Books 2015 Oxford & Philadelphia www.oxbowbooks.com Published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by and in the United States by OXBOWBOOKS OXBOWBOOKS 10 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford OX1 2EW 908 Darny Road, Havertown, PA 19083 in association with THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE HISTORY OF GLASS © Oxbow Books and the individual authors 2015 Hardcover Edition ISBN 978-1-78297-774-2 Digital Edition ISBN 978-1-78297-775-9 A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Glass of the Roman world / edited by Justine Bayley, Ian Freestone, and Caroline Jackson. pages cm Summary: "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" Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-78297-774-2 (hardcover edition) -- ISBN 978-1-78297-775-9 (digital) 1. Glass--Rome--History. 2. Glass manufacture--Rome--History. 3. Glassware, Roman. 4. Glassware industry--Rome--History. 5. Material culture--Rome--History. 6. Rome--Antiquities. 7. Rome--Social life and customs. 8. Rome--Commerce--History. 9. Rome--Economic conditions. I. Bayley, J. (Justine) II. Freestone, Ian. III. Jackson, Caroline M. TP850.G55 2015 666'.10937--dc23 2015001452 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the publisher in writing. Typeset by M.C. Bishop at The Armatura Press Printed in Malta by Gutenberg Press For a complete list of Oxbow titles, please contact: UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Oxbow Books Oxbow Books Telephone (01865) 241249, Fax (01865) 794449 Telephone (800) 7919354, Fax (610) 8539146 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.oxbowbooks.com www.casemateacademic.com/oxbow Oxbow Books is part of the Casemate Group Front Cover: top left, bowl from excavations at Usk ©Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, bottom left circus cup from excavations at Colchester (1870,0224.3) and bottom right ribbed bowl from Hartford Heath (1958,0704.724), both © Trustees of the British Museum, top right Cameo vase (see Newby this volume) © Bonhams, London. Back cover: far right and left, images from excavations at Argentière (Fréjus) photograph taken by Jeff Veitch © Department of Archaeology, Durham University, image, second left, painted cup (possibly Bacchus) from excavations at Catterick (published Jennifer Price, Antiquaries Journal 1990). CONTENTS Acknowledgements..................................................................................................................................................................vii Contributors............................................................................................................................................................................ viii Preface........................................................................................................................................................................................x Introduction: Jennifer Price and her contribution to the study of Roman glass......................................................................... xi Jennifer Price Publications.......................................................................................................................................................xii Section 1: Technology and Production Marie-Dominique Nenna 1. Primary glass workshops in Graeco-Roman Egypt: Preliminary report on the excavations of the site of Beni Salama, Wadi Natrun (2003, 2005–9)................................................................................................................................1 Anna-Barbara Follmann-Schulz 2. The Hambach glass production in the late Roman period.................................................................................................... 23 John Shepherd 3. A Gazetteer of glass working sites in Roman London.......................................................................................................... 33 Caroline Jackson and Harriet Foster 4. Provenance studies and Roman glass................................................................................................................................... 44 David Whitehouse 5. The pontil in the Roman world: A preliminary survey......................................................................................................... 57 Ian C. Freestone and Colleen P. Stapleton 6. Composition, technology and production of coloured glasses from Roman mosaic vessels ............................................... 61 E. Marianne Stern 7. Roman glass from East to West............................................................................................................................................ 77 Section 2: Vessels and their Forms Souen Fontaine and Danièlle Foy 8. Mould-blown beakers with figurative scenes: New data on Narbonensis province............................................................. 97 vi Contents Birgitta Hoffmann 9. Roman and later glass from the Fezzan.............................................................................................................................. 112 Yael Israeli 10. Some exceptional glass vessels from Caesarea Maritima.................................................................................................116 Daniel Keller 11. Glass in the domestic space: Contextual analysis of Late Roman glass assemblages from Ephesus and Petra................ 124 Martine Newby Haspeslagh 12. A Roman dionysiac cameo glass vase...............................................................................................................................138 Sally Cottam 13. An unusual mould-blown beaker from Barzan, south-west France.................................................................................. 146 Section 3: Other Uses of Glass Sarah Jennings 14. Flat glass from Butrint and its surrounding areas, Albania...............................................................................................153 Heidi Amrein 15. Two wooden glazing bars found in Vindonissa (Switzerland) from the collection of the Swiss National Museum......... 165 Sylvia Fünfschilling 16. The re-use of Roman glass fragments...............................................................................................................................170 Justine Bayley 17. Roman enamels and enamelling.......................................................................................................................................178 Peter Cosyns 18. Beyond the Channel! That’s quite a different matter. A comparison of Roman black glass from Britannia, Gallia Belgica and Germania Inferior................................................................................................................................... 190 6 COMPOSITION, TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCTION OF COLOURED GLASSES FROM ROMAN MOSAIC VESSELS Ian C. Freestone and Colleen P. Stapleton Introduction domed form to produce an open vessel, typically a bowl Profound changes occurred in the early Roman glass (Figs 6.2, 6.3; Grose 1986; Gudenrath 1991; Taylor and Hill industry, which included a major increase in the scale of 2003). The complex chaîne opératoire and high level of production along with the widespread adoption of shaping skill that would have been required to produce the bowls by blowing a gather of hot glass on a blowpipe (e.g. Grose suggest that they were relatively expensive items and a 1986). However, our understanding of the detail of these number of writers of the mid1st century AD comment that, changes remains limited. It might be expected that the by that time, glass had recently become much less substantial reorganisation of the industry that occurred at expensive, implying that the earlier vessels of the type that time would have had ramifications for the technologies under discussion here were costly (Grose 1986). used to produce the glass materials used in vessel The use of stronglycoloured vessel glass declined production and by implication their compositions. However,