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Glassware and glassworking in Thessaloniki : 1st century BC - 6th century AD / Anastassios Ch. Antonaras.
- Title
- Glassware and glassworking in Thessaloniki : 1st century BC - 6th century AD / Anastassios Ch. Antonaras.
- Author
- Antonaras, Anastassios C.
- Publication
- Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Description
- viii, 383 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, plans; 29 cm.
- Summary
- Glassware and Glassworking in Thessaloniki: 1st Century BC - 6th Century AD is a detailed examination of the production of glass and glass vessels in the eastern Mediterranean from the Hellenistic Age to the Early Christian period, analysing production techniques and decoration. The volume establishes the socio-economic framework of glassmaking and glassmakers' social status in the Roman world generally and in Thessaloniki specifically, while identifying probable local products. Presented are all the excavation glass finds from Thessaloniki and its environs found between 1912 and 2002. A typological classification was created for almost 800 objects - which encompass the overwhelming majority of common excavation finds in the Balkans - as well as for the decorative themes that appear on the more valuable pieces. Comparative material from the entire Mediterranean was studied, verified in its entirety through primary publications. A summary of the excavation history of these vessels' find-spots is provided, with details for each excavation, in many cases unpublished and identified through research in the archives of the relevant museums and Ephorates of Antiquities. The uses of glass vessels are presented, and there is discussion and interpretation of the reasons that permitted, or imposed, the choice of glass for their production. The finds are statistically analysed, and a chronological overview examining them century by century on the basis of use and place of production is given. Finally, there is an effort to interpret the data from the study in historical terms, and to incorporate the results into the political-economic evolution of the region's political history.
- Series Statement
- Archaeopress Roman archaeology ; 27
- Uniform Title
- Archaeopress Roman archaeology 27.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-377) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction, p.1 -- 1. Production -- Forming -- Decoration, p.5 -- 2. Secondary Glass-Workshops, p.25 -- 3. Glassworkers: People, Artisans and Traders, p.47 -- 4. Typological Classification of the Material Under Study, p.52 -- 5. Decoration of Studied Material, p.170 -- 6. Uses of Glass Vessels, p.182 -- 7. Chronological Overview of the Finds -- Conclusions, p.188 -- 8. Catalogue of the Glass Vessels, p.197 -- 9. Catalogue and Brief History of the Excavations and Find-Spots of the Glass Vessels, p.223 -- Glossary of Technological Terms Related to Glassworking, p.251 -- 10. Concordance, p.259 -- Typological and Chronological Table, p.264 -- Plates: Drawings, p.276 -- Plates, p.321 -- Bibliography and Abbreviations, p.345 -- Index of Places, p.378.
- ISBN
- 178491679X
- 9781784916794
- OCLC
- 1002116572
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library