Research Catalog

Title

Vitreous materials in the late Bronze Age Aegean / edited by Caroline M. Jackson and Emma C. Wager.

Author

Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology. Round Table (9th : 2005)

Publication

Oxford : Oxbow ; Oakville, CT : [Distributed in the USA by] D. Brown, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jackson, Caroline M.
• Wager, Emma C.

Description

xxiii, 232 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Sheffield studies in Aegean archaeology ; 9

Uniform Title

Sheffield studies in Aegean archaeology ; 9.

Subject

• Glass > Aegean Sea Region > History > Congresses
• Faience > Aegean Sea Region > History > Congresses
• Bronze age > Aegean Sea Region > Congresses
• Glass > Aegean Sea Region > History > To 1500 > Congresses
• Faience > Aegean Sea Region > History > To 1500 > Congresses
• Civilization, Aegean > Congresses
• Aegean Sea Region > Antiquities > Congresses
• Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) > Antiquities > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Note

• Papers originally presented at the 9th annual Round Tabel of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Vitreous materials in the Late Bronze Age Aegean : a window to the east Mediterranean / Caroline M. Jackson and Emma C. Wager -- Glass and faience production sites in New Kingdom Egypt : a review of the evidence / Paul T. Nicholson -- Crushed rock and molten salt? : some aspects of the primary glass production at Qantir/Pi-Ramesse / Thilo Rehren and Edgar B. Pusch -- The technological development of Aegean vitreous materials in the Bronze Age / Marina Panagiotaki -- Tiny, fragile, common, precious : Mycenaean glass and faience beads and other objects / Georg Nightingale -- The scientific examination fo Aegean vitreous materials : problems and potential / Michael Tite ... [et al.] -- Close encounters of interesting kinds : relief beads and glass seals : design and craftsmen / Helen Hughes-Brock -- Palace [trademark symbol] : speculations on palatial production in Mycenaean Greece with (some) reference to glass / John Bennet -- Minoan faience revisited / Karen Polinger Foster -- Colour use and symbolism in Bronze Age Crete : exploring social and technological relationships / Mark Peters -- Vitreous materials in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages : some questions of values / Susan Sherratt.

ISBN

• 9781842172612 (pbk.)
• 1842172611 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 85830024
• SCSB-10670599

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library