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Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum

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Description for Fire and Sand: Ancient Glass in the Princeton University Art Museum Hardback. Features nearly all of the ancient glass objects in the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum. In this title, an introductory essay by an award-winning scholar summarizes the history of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine glass, with a special emphasis on people and on the processes they used to create and decorate these artefacts. Series: Princeton University Art Museum. Num Pages: 408 pages, 556 colour images + 40 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 1QDAZ; ACG; ACK; AFP; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 299 x 264 x 45. Weight in Grams: 2902.

For the first time, this important volume features nearly all of the ancient glass objects in the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum. Collected over the course of more than a century, the objects originate from locations across the eastern Mediterranean region. Taken together, the 509 ancient glass vessels and plaques provide a timeline of archaeological and cultural history from the middle of the second millennium B.C. to the rise of Islam in the 7th century.

An introductory essay by award-winning scholar Anastassios Antonaras summarizes the history of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine glass, with a special emphasis on people—workers, artisans, ... Read more



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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
398
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300179811
SKU
V9780300179811
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About Anastassios Antonaras
Anastassios Antonaras is archaeologist-museologist at the Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki.

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