Pattern in Glass Use in the Roman and Byzantine Worlds: A Report on Current Research at the Institute of Archaeology and UCL Qatar

Thilo Rehren,Ian Freestone

doi:10.5334/ai.1718

Abstract

Pattern in Glass Use in the Roman and Byzantine Worlds: A Report on Current Research at the Institute of Archaeology and UCL Qatar

Highlights

Glass is a solid substance unlike most others
Rehren and Freestone: Pattern in Glass Use in the Roman and Byzantine Worlds covering most of the Old World and a period as recent as the first millennium AD this is clearly a less than satisfactory state of affairs
The emphasis here is on the consumption side of the glass industry, with particular focus on important regions of the Byzantine world traditionally less well covered by existing case studies, such as Asia Minor and the Balkans

Summary

Introduction

Glass is a solid substance unlike most others. It has no defined crystal structure, that is to say it has no orderly repetition of the same arrangement of atoms over and over again regardless where in the crystal you look. The main glass production groups, in contrast, are only very approximately defined in their composition, origin and chronological currency.

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