Glass along the Silk Road from 200 BC to AD 1000
Subtitle: international conference within the scope of the "Sino-German Project on Cultural Heritage Preservation" of the RGZM and the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, December 11th-12th, 2008
By: Bettina Zorn, Alexandra Hilgner (eds.).
Contributors: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz; Shanxi Sheng kao gu yan jiu suo (Xi'an Shi, China)
Series: RGZM-Tagungen -- Bd. 9; RGZM Tagungen -- Bd. 9.
Publisher: Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Mainz
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9783884671481
Subjects: Ancient Glassware; Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Europe. Celtic glass / Rupert Gebhard; title: The late antique glass from Mayen (Germany) : first results of chemical and archaeological studies / Sonngard Hartmann, Martin Grünewald; title: Early mediaeval window glass from Switzerland and a brief history of glass production in Europe in the first millennium AD / Sophie Wolf, Cordula Kessler; title: "Glass" workshop from Caričin Grad (Iustiniana Prima) / Vujadin Ivanišević, Sonja Stamenković (with a contribution by Susanne Greiff); title: Early Byzantine glass from Caričin Grad/Iustiniana Prima (Serbia) : first results concerning the composition of raw glass chunks / Jörg Drauschke, Susanne Greiff; title: Pt. 2. Western and Central Asia. Functional and economic aspects of late Sasanian and early Islamic glass from Kush, United Arab Emirates / Daniel Keller; title: The Begram glasses from Afghanistan / Pierre Cambon; title: Some notes on early Islamic glass in Eastern Uzbekistan / Thilo Rehren, Ana Osório, Abdulhamid Anarbaev; title: Glass along the Silk Road in the Near East from the Persian Empire to the Middle Ages / Mohammadreza Riazi; title: Technical diversity of Persian glasses in the early Islamic period and the probably relations with China (chemical analysis of glass findings from Rayy) / Reza Vahidzadeh, Ghadir Afrund; title: Pt. 3. East and Southeast Asia. Trade and glass vessels along the Maritime Silk Road / Brigitte Borell; title: Southeast Asia : platform of early glass trade / Karsten Brabänder; title: Analyses of some ancient Cambodian glass finds from Krek Village 10.8 / Susanne Greiff; title: On glassware from tombs of the Sui and Tang dynasties / Wang Xiaomeng; title: Glass vessels of the Tang and the five dynasties found at Guangzhou / An Jiayao; title: Glass : top quality works in the Silk Road trade / Jiang Jie; title: Some thoughts on glass finds in the Tarim Oasis from the past ten years / Yu Zhiyong; title: A scientific study of glass finds from the Niya Oasis / Lin Yixian; title: Early glass in Korean tombs : cultural context / Insook Lee; title: Silk Road glass in ancient Korea : the contribution of chemical compositional analysis / James W. Lankton ... [et al.]; title: Sasanian and post-Sasanian plant ash glass vessels delivered to Japan / Takashi Taniichi.