TY  - BOOK
AU  - Degryse, Patrick
AB  - This book presents a reconstruction of the Hellenistic-Roman glass industry from the point of view of raw material procurement. Within the ERC funded ARCHGLASS project, the authors of this work developed new geochemical techniques to provenance primary glass making. They investigated both production and consumer sites of glass, and identified suitable mineral resources for glass making through geological prospecting. Because the source of the raw materials used in the manufacturing of natron glass can be determined, new insights in the trade of this material are revealed. While eastern Mediterranean glass factories were active throughout the Hellenistic to early Islamic period, western Mediterranean and possibly Italian and North African sources also supplied the Mediterranean world with raw glass in early Roman times. By combining archaeological and scientific data, the authors develop new interdisciplinary techniques for an innovative archaeological interpretation of glass trade in the Hellenistic-Roman world, highlighting the development of glass as an economic material.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_513796
ID  - OAPEN ID: 513796
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030822468
KW  - raw material procurement
KW  - hellenistic-roman glass
KW  - glass trade
KW  - Calcium oxide
KW  - Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy
KW  - Natron
KW  - Parts-per notation
KW  - Sand
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/640ed18c-94b4-423c-9f16-5e3e5db03ff0/513796.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33274
PB  - Leuven University Press
PP  - Belgium, Leuven
PY  - 2014
SN  - 9789461661579
TI  - Glass Making in the Greco-Roman World: Results of the ARCHGLASS projectnull
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