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The First Thousand Years of Glass-Making in the Ancient Near East - Compositional Analyses of Late Bronze and Iron Age Glasses (Paperback)
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The First Thousand Years of Glass-Making in the Ancient Near East - Compositional Analyses of Late Bronze and Iron Age Glasses (Paperback)
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Glass-Making in the Ancient Near East explores glass composition
and production from the mid-second to mid-first millennia BC,
essentially the first thousand years of glass-making. Multi-element
analyses of 132 glasses from Pella in Jordan, and Nuzi and Nimrud
in Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia), produce new and important data that
provide insights into the earliest glass production. A novel method
for data interpretation and presentation has been developed and
used to characterise the glass types and to investigate questions
of composition, raw materials, regional differences and
similarities, and changes through time from the earliest consistent
glass manufacture as represented at 16th century BC Pella, which is
compared with Late Bronze Age Nuzi, to the Iron Age at both Pella
and Nimrud. These compositional data are compared with available
glass compositional data from the widespread regions of the Levant,
Mesopotamia, Egypt, Iran and France, uncovering fascinating
connections that, when placed in the archaeological context, reveal
much about glass production, raw material sources, and distribution
of finished and raw glasses. Technological innovations, including
the introduction of natron-fluxed glasses, early decolouring with
antimony, and the use of Egyptian cobalt colourant in Near Eastern
glasses, are explored as part of this unique investigation of the
critical developments in sophisticated and complex glass-making
that laid the foundations for the establishment of large-scale
production in the ensuing Hellenistic and Roman periods.
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