Roman glasses

Rutti, B., Early Enameled Glass, in Roman Glass Two Centuries of Art and Invention, Newby M. and Painter K., Eds., Society of Antiquaries of London, London, 1991. 

DE-MS was employed in the characterisation of resinous materials from Roman ceramic vessels, Palaeolithic stone tools, Roman glass unguentaria and amphorae [14,16,18,23]. 

Roman and later period may have been very limited, and confined to places in the Near East where there is a good supply of natron and suitable sand (Freestone et al., 2008). In the absence of any archaeological evidence, however, the actual locations of any major sites of Roman glass making remain unknown - a fact which, given the ubiquity of glass in the Roman empire, is little short of astonishing. 

Freestone, I.C., Degryse, P., Shepherd, J., Gorin-Rosen, Y. and Schneider, J. (2008). Near Eastern origin of Late Roman glass from London using neodymium and strontium isotopes. Journal of Archaeological Science. 

Jackson, C.M. (1992). A Compositional Analysis of Roman and Early Post-Roman Glass and Glassworking Waste from Selected British Sites. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford. 

Janssens, K., Aerts, A., Yincze, L., et al. (1996). Corrosion phenomena in electron, proton and synchrotron X-ray microprobe analysis of Roman glass from Qumran, Jordan. Nuclear Instruments and Methods B 109-110 690-695. 

From analyses of ancient Egyptian and Roman glass articles, it is shown that generally the glass from these sources was a soda-lime glass with rather high soda content as compared with modern soda-lime glass. 

J. Price, Some Roman Glass From Spain, Annales de 6e Congres de L Association Internationale pour L Histoire du Verre, Liege, 1974, pp. 65—84. 

Fig. 3.9 The Lycurgus Cup, a fourth-century ad Roman glass masterpiece, currently housed in...

Glass dissolves in water, particularly at elevated temperature and pressure we use this fact to grow all the quartz crystals used by industry. Dishwashers make glass dull. Roman glass (Eigure 21.17) is iridescent because the glass has reacted with acid in the soil. (The iridescence was not present in Roman times.) The corrosion products form several distinct layers and, hence, generate the interference known as iridescence. It can easily be duplicated as shown by Tiffany and others. 

Allen, D.(1998) Roman Glass in Britain, Shire Pub. Ltd., Bucks, UK. 

Basch, A., Analysis of oil from two Roman glass bottles, Israel Explor. J., 22 27-32 (1972). 

Vemey-Carron A, Gin S, Libourel G (2008) A fractured roman glass block altered for 18(X) years in sea water analogy with nuclear waste glass in deep geological repository. Geochim and Cosmochim Acta 72 5372-5385 Plodinec MJ, Wicks GG, (1994) application of hydration thermodynamics to in situ results. Mat Res Soc Symp Proc, V 303 145-157... 

Roman glass unguentaria Roman waterlogged wood... 

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