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Glassware, Classical --- Glassware --- Glassware, Classical --- Glassware
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Glassware, Classical --- Glassware --- Verrerie --- Catalogs --- Catalogues --- British Museum --- Catalogs.
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Glassware, Classical. --- Glassware, Greco-Roman. --- Verrerie romaine. --- Verrerie antique
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Glassware, Classical --- Glassware --- Romans --- Great Britain --- Antiquities, Roman.
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Glassware, Classical --- Glassware --- Glassware --- Padua (Italy). --- Italy, Northern --- Antiquities, Roman
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Glassware, Classical --- Glassware, Ancient --- Social Science --- Antiques & Collectibles --- Glassware. --- Glassware, Classical --- Glassware, Ancient --- Archaeology --- Archaeology. --- Glass & Glassware. --- Mediterranean Region --- Mediterranean Region --- Antiquities. --- Archaeology
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This book is an interdisciplinary exploration of archaeological glass in which technological, historical, geological, chemical and cultural aspects of the study of ancient glass are combined. The book examines why and how this unique material was invented some 4,500 years ago and considers the ritual, social, economic and political contexts of its development. It also provides an in-depth consideration of glass as a material, the raw materials used to make it, and its wide range of chemical compositions in both the East and the West from its invention to the seventeenth century AD. Julian Henderson focuses on three contrasting archaeological and scientific case studies: Late Bronze Age glass, late Hellenistic-early Roman glass, and Islamic glass in the Middle East. He considers in detail the provenances of ancient glass using scientific techniques and discusses a range of vessels and their uses in ancient societies.
Glassware, Ancient. --- Glassware, Classical. --- Glass manufacture --- Classical glassware --- Ancient glassware --- History. --- Social Sciences --- Archeology
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Social Science --- Antiques & Collectibles --- Mediterranean Region --- Glassware. --- Glassware, Classical --- Glassware, Ancient --- Archaeology. --- Glass & Glassware. --- Antiquities. --- Archaeology
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"This book provides an integrated interdisciplinary approach to the study of a complex and fascinating ancient material. A variety of aspects of ancient glass is discussed including principally archaeology, history, chemical analysis, materials science, geology and botany. The aims of the book are to explore these aspects by using a combination of focused studies and case studies in a variety of ancient and historical periods. Each case study, in Bronze Age Mesopotamia, Late Hellenistic-early Roman Middle East and the Islamic world, has been selected so as to incorporate contrasting social, political, economic and ritual contexts in which glass was manufactured, traded and used. These contrasting characteristics of societies therefore influenced the ways in which glass fitted into society: the ways in which it was manufactured and used. The relationships between production, trade and use of ancient materials including glass are complex. The scale of production involving a range of facilities and critical combinations of raw materials from a variety of sources were characteristic of the specific society and their ideologies. Each step in the chan̋e oppřatoire involved decisions, each with a social impact and significance leading to the manufacture of glass artefacts characteristic of that society. The control over each aspect of production was a reflection of the degree of social hierarchy, (perhaps involving social elites) and complexity at the time"--
History of civilization --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- Glass --- Glass manufacture --- History --- Glassware, Ancient. --- Glassware, Classical. --- Social science --- History. --- Archaeology. --- Verrerie antique --- Verre --- Fabrication --- Histoire
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