DOCSLIB.ORG

Roman Glass Industry (Circa 50 B.C

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Roman Glass Industry (Circa 50 B.C Durham E-Theses The Impact of Glassblowing on the Early-Roman Glass Industry (circa 50 B.C. A.D. 79) PRIOR, JONATHAN,DAVID How to cite: PRIOR, JONATHAN,DAVID (2015) The Impact of Glassblowing on the Early-Roman Glass Industry (circa 50 B.C. A.D. 79), Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11186/ Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. Academic Support Oce, Durham University, University Oce, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HP e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 0191 334 6107 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk 2 THE IMPACT OF GLASSBLOWING ON THE EARLY- ROMAN GLASS INDUSTRY (CIRCA 50 B.C. – A.D. 79) BY JONATHAN DAVID PRIOR SUBMITTED FOR THE QUALIFICATION OF PH.D. IN ARCHAEOLOGY DURHAM UNIVERSITY 2015 ii Table of Contents Text LIST OF FIGURES .............................................................................................................................................. v Chapter 1 : Introduction and Literature Review ........................................................ 1 1.1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 Literature Review ................................................................................................................... 7 1.2.1 Early History of Glass ......................................................................................................... 8 1.2.1.1 Origins of Glass ............................................................................................................................... 8 1.2.1.2 Glass From the Bronze Age Through the HellenistiC Period. ..................................... 9 1.2.1.3 Glass in the Roman World ....................................................................................................... 13 1.2.2 Methods of Glass Production ......................................................................................... 20 1.2.2.1 Making Glass ................................................................................................................................. 20 1.2.2.2 Glass Working ............................................................................................................................... 21 1.2.2.3 Glassblowing ................................................................................................................................. 26 1.2.2.4 Glass Workers ............................................................................................................................... 36 1.2.2.5 Workshops ..................................................................................................................................... 40 1.2.3 Treatment of Glass in Archaeological Literature ................................................... 47 1.2.4 Problems With the Current Study of Glass ................................................................ 56 1.3 Tel Anafa: Glass from a Pre-glassblowing Roman Context. .................................... 58 Chapter 2 : Methodology .................................................................................................. 67 2.1 Creating a Methodology ...................................................................................................... 67 2.2 Site Selection .......................................................................................................................... 68 2.3 Identifying different vessels .............................................................................................. 74 2.4 Quantification ........................................................................................................................ 77 2.4.1 QuantifiCation methods ................................................................................................................ 78 2.4.2 Fragment Count ............................................................................................................................... 80 2.4.3 Fragment Weight and Adjusted Weight ................................................................................ 81 2.4.4 Estimated Vessel Equivalency (EVE) ..................................................................................... 84 2.4.5 Cool and Baxter: Adjusted EVE. ................................................................................................ 86 2.4.6 Estimated Number Methods. ..................................................................................................... 89 2.5 Collection of Data For The Sites in this Thesis ............................................................ 96 2.6 Making Use of the Data ..................................................................................................... 100 Chapter 3 : Usk: Pre-Flavian Fortress Glass on the Western Frontier. .......... 103 3.1 Intro: The Site ...................................................................................................................... 103 3.1.1 Period of OCCupation .................................................................................................................. 105 3.1.2 SignifiCance of Usk to this Thesis .......................................................................................... 107 3.1.3 Criteria Examined ........................................................................................................................ 111 3.1.4 Methodology ................................................................................................................................... 112 3.2 Types of Glass Production ............................................................................................... 113 3.2.1 Cast Glass ......................................................................................................................................... 114 3.2.2 Blown Glass ..................................................................................................................................... 123 3.3 Patterns ................................................................................................................................. 151 3.4 Distribution .......................................................................................................................... 153 3.5 Relationship to Pottery .................................................................................................... 155 3.6 Conclusion: Contextualising the Data ......................................................................... 158 Chapter 4 : Nijmegen: A Comparative Study of the First Century Kops Plateau Fort and Oppidum Batavorum. ..................................................................................... 162 4.1 Introduction: The Site ...................................................................................................... 162 4.1.1 Period of OCCupation .................................................................................................................. 163 iii 4.1.2 SignifiCance of Nijmegen to This Study .............................................................................. 164 4.1.3 Criteria Examined ........................................................................................................................ 167 4.2 Types of Glass Production ............................................................................................... 168 4.2.1 Cast Glass (Appendix 1.A) ........................................................................................................ 168 4.2.2 Blown Glass .................................................................................................................................... 174 4.3 Patterns ................................................................................................................................. 189 4.4 Distribution .......................................................................................................................... 193 4.5 Conclusion: Contextualising the Data. ........................................................................ 198 Chapter 5 : Xanten Vetera I: First Century Frontier Fortress in the Rhineland. ................................................................................................................................................ 201 5.1 Intro: The Site ...................................................................................................................... 201 5.1.1 Period of OCCupation .................................................................................................................. 204 5.1.2 SignifiCance of Vetera I to this Thesis ................................................................................. 205 5.1.3 Criteria Examined ........................................................................................................................ 207 5.1.4 Methodology .................................................................................................................................
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Comparative Study of Leaf, Arabesque and Ivy Motifs in Egyptian Fatimids Glass and Seljuks of Iran1
    Volume 6 Issue 1 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND June 2019 CULTURAL STUDIES ISSN 2356-5926 Comparative Study of leaf, arabesque and Ivy motifs in Egyptian Fatimids glass and Seljuks of Iran1 Seyed Reza Hoseini2, Parisa Mohammadi3 Abstract: During the Islamic period, the art of glassware grew considerably in the era of the Fatimids of Egypt and at the same time during the Seljuqs dynasty of Iran. The coexistence of these two dynasties and the relationships between them can provide the basis for following the characteristics of each works. The aim of this study was to investigate the quality of the form and also to identify the similarities and differences in plant motifs of leaves, arabesque and ivy motifs in glassware of these two dynasties. Accordingly, the following question arises: What are the similarities and differences in the plant motifs of leaves, arabesque and ivy motifs in the Fatimids and Seljuks glassware? In order to answer this question, 55 works were employed; among them,19 items of the Fatimids dynasty glassware and 17 items of the Seljuqs dynasty glassware with mentioned motifs have been compared. Using a descriptive analytical approach, this comparative-historical research has been conducted based on the library resources. The results show that in Fatimids works, palm leaves are often similar to the original form of the leaf, in the form of a triangle and decorated with golden colour, which can indicate the importance of the motif, but in the Seljuqs works, the leaves have different forms and often an abstract form. Two dynasties' motifs were common in the use of empty space and curved forms.
    [Show full text]
  • Luxury Board Games for the Northern Greek Elite Despina Ignatiadou
    Luxury Board Games for the Northern Greek Elite Despina Ignatiadou To cite this version: Despina Ignatiadou. Luxury Board Games for the Northern Greek Elite. Archimède : archéologie et histoire ancienne, UMR7044 - Archimède, 2019, pp.144-159. halshs-02927454 HAL Id: halshs-02927454 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02927454 Submitted on 1 Sep 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. N°6 ARCHÉOLOGIE ET HISTOIRE ANCIENNE 2019 1 DOSSIER THÉMATIQUE : HISTOIRES DE FIGURES CONSTRUITES : LES FONDATEURS DE RELIGION DOSSIER THÉMATIQUE : JOUER DANS L’ANTIQUITÉ : IDENTITÉ ET MULTICULTURALITÉ GAMES AND PLAY IN ANTIQUITY: IDENTITY AND MULTICULTURALITY 71 Véronique DASEN et Ulrich SCHÄDLER Introduction EGYPTE 75 Anne DUNN-VATURI Aux sources du « jeu du chien et du chacal » 89 Alex DE VOOGT Traces of Appropriation: Roman Board Games in Egypt and Sudan 100 Thierry DEPAULIS Dés coptes ? Dés indiens ? MONDE GREC 113 Richard. H.J. ASHTON Astragaloi on Greek Coins of Asia Minor 127 Véronique DASEN Saltimbanques et circulation de jeux 144 Despina IGNATIADOU Luxury Board Games for the Northern Greek Elite 160 Ulrich SCHÄDLER Greeks, Etruscans, and Celts at play MONDE ROMAIN 175 Rudolf HAENSCH Spiele und Spielen im römischen Ägypten: Die Zeugnisse der verschiedenen Quellenarten 186 Yves MANNIEZ Jouer dans l’au-delà ? Le mobilier ludique des sépultures de Gaule méridionale et de Corse (Ve siècle av.
    [Show full text]
  • Du 18E CONGRÈS De L’ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE Pour L’HISTOIRE Du VERRE C Y M B C Y M B
    ANNALES Thessaloniki 2009 du 18e CONGRÈS de l’ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE pour l’HISTOIRE du VERRE C Y M B C Y M B C Y M B ANNALES du 18e CONGRÈS de l’ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE pour l’HISTOIRE du VERRE Editors Despina Ignatiadou, Anastassios Antonaras Editing Committee Nadia Coutsinas Ian C. Freestone Sylvia Fünfschilling Caroline Jackson Janet Duncan Jones Marie-Dominique Nenna Lisa Pilosi Maria Plastira-Valkanou Jennifer Price Jane Shadel Spillman Marco Verità David Whitehouse B M Y C Thessaloniki 2009 C Y M B i C Y M B C Y M B C Y M B B M Y C Couverture / Cover illustration The haematinon bowl from Pydna. Height 5.5 cm. © 27th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Greece. The bowl (skyphos) is discussed in the paper by Despina Ignatiadou ‘A haematinon bowl from Pydna’, p. 69. © 2012 Thessaloniki AIHV and authors ISBN: 978-90-72290-00-7 Editors: Despina Ignatiadou, Anastassios Antonaras AIHV Association Internationale pour l’Histoire du Verre International Association for the History of Glass http: www.aihv.org Secretariat: The Corning Museum of Glass One Museum Way B M Corning NY, 14830 USA Y C Printed by: ZITI Publishing, Thessaloniki, Greece http: www.ziti.gr C Y M B ii C Y M B C Y M B C Y M B C Y M B CONTENTS PRÉFACE – MARIE-DOMINIQUE NENNA . xiii PREFACE – MARIE-DOMINIQUE NENNA . xv GREEK LITERARY SOURCES STERN MARIANNE EVA Ancient Greek technical terms related to glass production . 1 2nd MILLENNIUM BC / BRONZE AGE GLASS NIGHTINGALE GEORG Glass and faience and Mycenaean society .
    [Show full text]
  • Ghana's Glass Beadmaking Arts in Transcultural Dialogues
    Ghana’s Glass Beadmaking Arts in Transcultural Dialogues Suzanne Gott PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR EXCEPT WHERE OTHERWISE NOTED hanaian powder-glass beads first captured spread of West African strip-weaving technologies. my attention in 1990, when closely examin- With the beginnings of European maritime trade in the late ing a strand of Asante waist beads purchased fifteenth century, an increasing volume of glass beads and glass in Kumasi’s Central Market. Looking at the goods were shipped to trade centers along present-day Ghana’s complex designs of different colored glasses, Gold Coast,1 stimulating the growth of local beadworking and I was struck with the realization that each powder-glass beadmaking industries. The flourishing coastal bead had been skillfully and painstakingly crafted. This seem- trade achieved a more direct engagement between European Gingly humble and largely unexamined art merited closer study merchants and trading communities than had been possible and greater understanding (Fig. 1). I worked with Christa Clarke, with the trans-Saharan trade, and enhanced European abilities Senior Curator for the Arts of Global Africa at the Newark to ascertain and respond to local West African consumer pref- Museum, to develop the 2008–2010 exhibition “Glass Beads of erences. This interactive trade environment also facilitated the Ghana” at the Newark Museum to introduce the general public impact of the demands of Gold Coast consumers on European to this largely overlooked art (Fig. 2). The following study pro- product design and production, a two-way dynamic similar to vides a more in-depth examination of Ghanaian glass beadmak- the trade in African-print textiles (Nielsen 1979; Steiner 1985).
    [Show full text]
  • AIHV-Kongress Thessaloniki 2009: Annales AIHV No. 18 Erschienen 2012-09
    Pressglas-Korrespondenz 2012-3 SG September 2012 AIHV-Kongress Thessaloniki 2009: Annales AIHV No. 18 erschienen 2012-09 Abb. 2012-3/62-01 Marie-Dominique Nenna Annales du 18e Congrès de l’Association Internationale pour l’Histoire du Verre Preface ISBN 978-90-72290-00-7, Einband Titelbild: The haematinon bowl from Pydna. Height 5.5 cm. I have great pleasure in presenting you with the Annales © 27th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, of the 18th congress of the Association Internationale Greece. s. Ignatiadou, A haematinon bowl from Pydna, p. 69 pour l’Histoire du Verre, and I wish to thank all those who have ensured that this publication appears with the least delay: principally the authors, the academic committee, and especially the academic editors of the volume, Despina Ignatiadou, vice-president, and member of the board of the AIHV for the years 2006- 2012, and Anastassios Antonaras. The 18th congress of the AIHV was held in Thessaloniki from September 21st - 25th, 2009. It was dedicated to Clasina Isings, who came, via a video, to offer us her best wishes. Here we have to warmly thank the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki which has organized the whole manifestation, and the Museum of Byzantine Culture, which has hosted our sessions in the brand new auditorium of the Museum, used for the first time for our congress. All our warm thanks also to The Friends of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki who supported the organization of the congress among the others with the nice bag decorated with bird-balsamaria, and The Prefecture of Thessaloniki, who has hosted us at the end of the congress.
    [Show full text]
  • Classical and Hellenistic Glass Workshops from Rhodes
    Classical and Hellenistic glass workshops from Rhodes Pavlos Triantafyllidis* Among the various crafts of Rhodes, glass making1 undoubtedly occupied an important position during the Classical and Hellenistic periods in the thriving commer- cial and economic activity of the island2. The arguments for a flourishing glassworking production on the island of Rhodes are mainly based on the typological and chrono- logical study of many finds, and on workshop evidence which came to light during the fifty-four years of rescue excavations of the 22nd Ephorate of Prehistorical and Classical Antiquities, mainly at the edge of the plain, in the Pano;ı “Akran (Diodoros 20.83.1-4), the town of Rhodes, as well as in the excavations of the then Italian Archaeological Service3 in Ialysos and Camiros. 1. The end of the sixth century and the fifth century BC The local glass production of Rhodes seems to have begun in the last quarter of the 6th century BC with the manufacture of opaque core-formed vessels (fig. 1), but also of opaque rod-formed head-shaped and figurine-pen- dants (fig. 2) and of multi-coloured beads of similar manufacture to the core-formed vessels found mainly in Fig. 1 — Core-formed amphoriskoi. Rhodes. Late 6c. BC. * Archaeologist, 22nd Archaeological Ephorate of Prehistorical and Classical Antiquities, Ippoton Street, GR- 85100 Rhodes, Greece. 1 Weinberg 1992, p. 19, 23; Triantafyllidis 1997; id. 2000, p. 30; id. 2002, p. 21-22. 2 Rostovtzeff (M.), The Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World, II, Oxford, 1941, p. 676ff.; Berthold (R.M.), Rhodes in the Hellenistic Age, London, 1984, p.
    [Show full text]
  • Colloquia Pontica Volume 10
    COLLOQUIA PONTICA VOLUME 10 ATTIC FINE POTTERY OF THE ARCHAIC TO HELLENISTIC PERIODS IN PHANAGORIA PHANAGORIA STUDIES, VOLUME 1 COLLOQUIA PONTICA Series on the Archaeology and Ancient History of the Black Sea Area Monograph Supplement of Ancient West & East Series Editor GOCHA R. TSETSKHLADZE (Australia) Editorial Board A. Avram (Romania/France), Sir John Boardman (UK), O. Doonan (USA), J.F. Hargrave (UK), J. Hind (UK), M. Kazanski (France), A.V. Podossinov (Russia) Advisory Board B. d’Agostino (Italy), P. Alexandrescu (Romania), S. Atasoy (Turkey), J.G. de Boer (The Netherlands), J. Bouzek (Czech Rep.), S. Burstein (USA), J. Carter (USA), A. Domínguez (Spain), C. Doumas (Greece), A. Fol (Bulgaria), J. Fossey (Canada), I. Gagoshidze (Georgia), M. Kerschner (Austria/Germany), M. Lazarov (Bulgaria), †P. Lévêque (France), J.-P. Morel (France), A. Rathje (Denmark), A. Sagona (Australia), S. Saprykin (Russia), T. Scholl (Poland), M.A. Tiverios (Greece), A. Wasowicz (Poland) ATTIC FINE POTTERY OF THE ARCHAIC TO HELLENISTIC PERIODS IN PHANAGORIA PHANAGORIA STUDIES, VOLUME 1 BY CATHERINE MORGAN EDITED BY G.R. TSETSKHLADZE BRILL LEIDEN • BOSTON 2004 All correspondence for the Colloquia Pontica series should be addressed to: Aquisitions Editor/Classical Studies or Gocha R. Tsetskhladze Brill Academic Publishers Centre for Classics and Archaeology Plantijnstraat 2 The University of Melbourne P.O. Box 9000 Victoria 3010 2300 PA Leiden Australia The Netherlands Tel: +61 3 83445565 Fax: +31 (0)71 5317532 Fax: +61 3 83444161 E-Mail: [email protected] E-Mail: [email protected] Illustration on the cover: Athenian vessel, end of the 5th-beg. of the 4th cent.
    [Show full text]
  • "Some Chemical Observations on the Cuneiform Glassmaking Texts." Annales Du 5E Congrès De L’Association Internationale Pour L’Histoire Du Verre
    Brill, R. H. "Some Chemical Observations on the Cuneiform Glassmaking Texts." Annales du 5e Congrès de l’Association Internationale pour l’Histoire du Verre. Liège: Edition du Secrétariat Général, 1972, pp. 329-351. SOME CHEMICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE CUNEIFORM GLASSMAKING TEXTS by Robert H. BRILL, Administrator, Scientific Research, The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Professor A. Leo Oppenheim, of the Oriental Institute, has recently prepared a new translation of the well-known Assyrian cuneiform glassmaking texts. His translation forms the basis of a book which will appear shortly after this symposium ('). The importance of these texts lies in the fact that on the basis of earlier translations (2) it was believed that they were «recipes» for making glasses. But there has always lingered in the minds of at least a few glass special­ ists (the present author included) some doubts as to the validity of this conclusion. For example, such doubts were voiced unequivocally by Dr. Frederic Schuler at the VIth International Congress on Glass in 1962 (S). Speaking only for myself, these doubts were not based upon any questioning of the scholarship of the earlier translators, but rather upon the fact that the evidence they were able to garner at "that time seemed less than totally convincing, and there remained a distinct possibility that the materials described in the texts were related to glasses but were not necessarily true glasses. Because these texts are so important to the study of the early history of glass making it has always been hoped that someday the question could be resolved conclusively one way or the other.
    [Show full text]
  • Contextualizing the Archaeometric Analysis of Roman Glass
    Contextualizing the Archaeometric Analysis of Roman Glass A thesis submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Cincinnati Department of Classics McMicken College of Arts and Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts August 2015 by Christopher J. Hayward BA, BSc University of Auckland 2012 Committee: Dr. Barbara Burrell (Chair) Dr. Kathleen Lynch 1 Abstract This thesis is a review of recent archaeometric studies on glass of the Roman Empire, intended for an audience of classical archaeologists. It discusses the physical and chemical properties of glass, and the way these define both its use in ancient times and the analytical options available to us today. It also discusses Roman glass as a class of artifacts, the product of technological developments in glassmaking with their ultimate roots in the Bronze Age, and of the particular socioeconomic conditions created by Roman political dominance in the classical Mediterranean. The principal aim of this thesis is to contextualize archaeometric analyses of Roman glass in a way that will make plain, to an archaeologically trained audience that does not necessarily have a history of close involvement with archaeometric work, the importance of recent results for our understanding of the Roman world, and the potential of future studies to add to this. 2 3 Acknowledgements This thesis, like any, has been something of an ordeal. For my continued life and sanity throughout the writing process, I am eternally grateful to my family, and to friends both near and far. Particular thanks are owed to my supervisors, Barbara Burrell and Kathleen Lynch, for their unending patience, insightful comments, and keen-eyed proofreading; to my parents, Julie and Greg Hayward, for their absolute faith in my abilities; to my colleagues, Kyle Helms and Carol Hershenson, for their constant support and encouragement; and to my best friend, James Crooks, for his willingness to endure the brunt of my every breakdown, great or small.
    [Show full text]
  • An Archaeometric Study of Hellenistic Glass Vessels: Evidence for Multiple Sources
    Archaeol Anthropol Sci DOI 10.1007/s12520-016-0336-x ORIGINAL PAPER An archaeometric study of Hellenistic glass vessels: evidence for multiple sources A. Oikonomou1 & J. Henderson 1 & M. Gnade2 & S. Chenery3 & N. Zacharias4 Received: 11 February 2016 /Accepted: 11 April 2016 # The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract In the present study, 53 glass fragments from core- Keywords Natron glass . Core-formed vessels . Hellenistic formed vessels and 3 glass beads are investigated using SEM/ period . Italy . Satricum . Trace elements . Chemical EDX, EPMA and LA-ICP-MS. All samples were excavated in composition . SEM-EDX . EPMA . LA-ICP-MS the Latin settlement of Satricum in central west Italy and apart from two, were found in the so-called fourth–third c. BC Hellenistic Votive deposit, also known as Votive Deposit III, Introduction discovered in front of the sanctuary of Mater Matuta on top of the acropolis. The analytical results indicate that the glass from Archeometric glass studies have focused on the analysis of Satricum is a typical soda-lime-silica type with natron used as a material from various periods, from Bronze Age to the flux. Its chemical compositions display a relatively low com- Middle Ages. The scientific community has been mainly in- positional variation. Small differences in the concentrations of terested in investigating glass dating from the Late Bronze major and minor oxides (SiO2,Al2O3, CaO and Fe2O3)andin Age (fourteenth to twelfth c. BC) and from late antiquity (first trace elements (Sr, Zr and Nd) between individual samples to ninth c.
    [Show full text]
  • Glass Making in the Greco-Roman World Studies in Archaeological Sciences 4
    Glass Making in the Greco-Roman World Studies in Archaeological Sciences 4 The series Studies in Archaeological Sciences presents state-of-the-art methodological, technical or material science contributions to Archaeological Sciences. The series aims to reconstruct the integrated story of human and material culture through time and testifies to the necessity of inter- and multidisciplinary research in cultural heritage studies. Editor-in-Chief Prof. Patrick Degryse, Centre for Archaeological Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium Editorial Board Prof. Ian Freestone, Cardiff Department of Archaeology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom Prof. Carl Knappett, Department of Art, University of Toronto, Canada Prof. Andrew Shortland, Centre for Archaeological and Forensic Analysis, Cranfield University, United Kingdom Prof. Manuel Sintubin, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium Prof. Marc Waelkens, Centre for Archaeological Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium Glass Making in the Greco-Roman World Results of the ARCHGLASS Project Edited by Patrick Degryse Leuven University Press Published with support of © 2014 by Leuven University Press / Presses Universitaires de Louvain / Universitaire Pers Leuven. Minderbroedersstraat 4, B-3000 Leuven (Belgium). All rights reserved. Except in those cases expressly determined by law, no part of this publication may be multiplied, saved in an automated datafile or made public in any way whatsoever without the express prior written consent of the publishers. ISBN 978 94 6270 007 9 D / 2014 / 1869 / 86 NUR: 682/933 Lay-out: Friedemann Vervoort Cover: Jurgen Leemans 5 Preface The ARCHGLASS “Archaeometry and Archaeology of Ancient Glass Production as a Source for Ancient Technology and Trade of Raw Materials” project, is a Seventh Framework Programme “Ideas” project funded under the European Research Council Starting Grant scheme.
    [Show full text]
  • A Brief History of Glassmaking
    A BRIEF HISTORY OF GLASSMAKING and its impact on southern New Jersey by John A. Rossi Published by Precision Electronic Glass Incorporated Copyright 1998 Contents Preface .............................................................................................. 4 Discovery of Glass is a Mystery ............................................................ 5 Magic of Making Glass ........................................................................ 6 Emerging Glass Industry ...................................................................... 7 Early American Glass ......................................................................... 8 Glass Succeeds in South Jersey ........................................................... 9 Modern Glass Era in South Jersey ..................................................... 13 A Partial South Jersey Glass Honor Roll ............................................. 15 South Jersey Today and Tomorrow .................................................... 20 Precision Electronic Glass, Inc ........................................................... 21 Preface To write the complete story of glassmaking would be impossible; so much of that story is unknown or the product of speculation. What is known, however, supplies a rich and fascinating record of the miraculous dis - covery of an ancient art that evolved gradually into the indispensable industry we have today. My aim is to highlight that record and the emergence of southern New Jersey as a principal center of the American glass industry. Historically,
    [Show full text]