Roman Glassware

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The semi-blind squirrel found another nut:

http://masca.museum.upenn.edu/rg_lineart/

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I included this website here only for links to images of Roman glassware reproductions (not for commercial reasons, not for endorsement, not for etc.):

http://www.romanglassmakers.co.uk/

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http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rgls/hd_rgls.htm

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http://www.umich.edu/~kelseydb/Exhibits ... Glass.html

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Searchable glassware website, with Roman and other period glass items:

http://www.cmog.org/collection/main.php?module=objects

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Another Roman glass topic/thread with nice collection of references and links:

http://www.romanarmy.com/rat/viewtopic.php?t=8164

[Lepidina]

While he doesn't have a lot of his Roman stuff up, Jay Klein makes excellent repro glass items from any time period. He especially loves doing Roman stuff and will happily talk about his research on period glass.

[url:2ivl65sd]http://www.historicalglassworks.com/[/url]

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I included this website here only for links to images of Roman glassware reproductions (not for commercial reasons, not for endorsement, not for etc.):

http://www.romanglassmakers.co.uk/

For our German speaking members: Most articles of this website is translated into German at this place [url:1aoocpm5]http://www.glasrepliken.de[/url]
There are some reports on experiments with reconstructed Roman glass furnaces (in England as well as in the Provinciaal Archeologisch Museum Velseke, Belgium), too.

[SigniferOne]

Here's what I was wondering about -- how do we date the particular dates of the various glass inventions?

A lot of the sites mentioned here say that glass was invented circa 2000 BC in Sumeria, and was found in Egypt as well; but as far as I know all they're referencing are small transparent beads, which could be polished rock as much as molten glass production, so what actual glass pieces have we found from Sumeria?

Secondly, the UPenn website claims that glass blowing was invented near the end of 1st century BC by some glassmaker in Jerusalem; how can we make claims with such a specific certainty, and does anyone have a list of evidence for early glass-blowing in general (i.e. all of the earliest pieces which form the basis of the theory of origin)?

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Here's what I was wondering about -- how do we date the particular dates of the various glass inventions?

Just from the finds, since written sources are quite rare. The upcoming of different new 'invented' glass vessel groups (wich obviously require new techniques) within an aerea / time normally leads to the conclusion of the prior invention of the required technologies.

A lot of the sites mentioned here say that glass was invented circa 2000 BC in Sumeria, and was found in Egypt as well; but as far as I know all they're referencing are small transparent beads, which could be polished rock as much as molten glass production, so what actual glass pieces have we found from Sumeria?

It´s quite easy to distinct polished rock from glass, since the melting process changes the appearance and the thing we call glass needs some more ingredients in addition to silica, such as soda / potassium.
But if we neglect the (maybe unintentional) invention of glass beads, the early times of glassmaking brought mainly sand core formed vessels.

Secondly, the UPenn website claims that glass blowing was invented near the end of 1st century BC by some glassmaker in Jerusalem; how can we make claims with such a specific certainty,...

You can´t seriously make such specific claims. This might reflect the seriousity of this source...
;-) )