The 1stC AD 'Periplus of the Erythraean Sea' mentions the export of raw glass to India, eg. section 56: https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/periplus/periplus.html …
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@caitlinrgreen Thank you,really interesting text- another one I've bookmarked to read again, with map in hand :-) -
@JohnNewsham1 It's a fascinating text; wiki has a good map, incidentally: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Periplous_of_the_Erythraean_Sea.svg …pic.twitter.com/r5ULmXIF19
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@caitlinrgreen Thank you, never looked at this area of history before. Good to broaden horizons :-)
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Another rather lovely fish-shaped glass vessel, 1stC AD :)https://twitter.com/carolemadge/status/559420602445213698 …
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A lovely 1stC AD rock crystal fish, pierced for suspension, from a grave at Arezzo, Italy: http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/ArezzoGrave.html …pic.twitter.com/DCzgldxdM3
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A rock crystal shell pendant, from a L3rdC burial at Gundelsheim, S. Germany: http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/GundelsheimShellPendant.html …pic.twitter.com/btMQpUoTKf
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A Roman rock crystal ring with a cameo of a woman's face http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/4-12.jpg pic.twitter.com/P27TmBKH2V
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Roman blue glass model boat of the 1stC AD from Aquileia, Italy, & a green one from Pompeii: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?assetId=1011432001&objectId=400388&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/CLfIsUwkVP
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Roman mosaic glass fragments, 1stC BC-1stC AD, framed with modern gold paper: https://www.flickr.com/photos/antiquitiesproject/5034889362/in/photostream/ …pic.twitter.com/HB0lWQvx7K
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A weathered 1stC AD Roman glass amphoriskos, rendered iridescent by time :) http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/221806/unknown-maker-amphoriskos-roman-1st-century/?artview=dor49370 …pic.twitter.com/2LKVscZg1q
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@caitlinrgreen Charming fish; amazing to have survived ! -
@namastenancysf oh yes, and one of several to have done so!
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Oh sublime! Still remember my fascination with tiny Roman glass bottles in London museum as a child. What is it about old glasswork?
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For me part of is definitely amazement that something so fragile and intricate survives!
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Probably because it was much treasured...amazing that we can look at something in wonder that was once looked at in wonder so long ago.
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