Vitreous materials in the late Bronze Age Aegean /

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Corporate author / creator:Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology. Round Table (9th : 2005)
Imprint:Oxford, UK : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, CT : [Distributed in the USA by] David Brown Book Co., c2008.
Description:xxiii, 232 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Sheffield studies in Aegean archaeology ; 9
Sheffield studies in Aegean archaeology ; 9.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7539039
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Other authors / contributors:Jackson, Caroline M.
Wager, Emma C.
ISBN:9781842172612 (pbk.)
1842172611 (pbk.)
Notes:Papers originally presented at the 9th annual Round Table of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology, Jan. 2005.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Contributors
  • Chronological Chart-Jacke Phillips
  • Introduction Vitreous Materials in the Late Bronze Age Aegean: a Window to the East Mediterranean
  • 1. Glass and Faience Production Sites in New Kingdom Egypt: a Review of the Evidence
  • 2. Crushed Rock and Molten Salt? Some Aspects of the Primary Glass Production at Qantir/Pi-Ramesse
  • 3. The Technological Development of Aegean Vitreous Materials in the Bronze Age
  • 4. Tiny, Fragile, Common, Precious. Mycenaean Glass and Faience Beads and Other Objects
  • 5. The Scientific Examination of Aegean Vitreous Materials-Problems and Potential
  • 6. Close Encounters of Interesting Kinds. Relief Beads and Glass Seals: Design and Craftsmen
  • 7. Palace TM: Speculations on Palatial Production in Mycenaean Greece with (Some) References to Glass
  • 8. Minoan Faience Revisited
  • 9. Colour Use and Symbolism in Bronze Age Crete: Exploring Social and Technological Relationships
  • 10. Vitreous Materials in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages: Some Questions of Values
  • Colour plates