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The Princeton University Art Museum collection of ancient glass - ANASTASSIOS ANTONARAS, principal photographer BRUCE M. WHITE, FIRE AND SAND. ANCIENT GLASS IN THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM (Princeton University Art Museum; distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven 2012). Pp. xi + 387, map, c.445 colour ills., 54 pp. of profile ills. ISBN 978-0-300-17981-1. $65.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2014

E. Marianne Stern
E. Marianne Stern*
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Hilversum, e.m.stern@tele2.nl
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Journal of Roman Archaeology , Volume 27 , 2014 , pp. 720 - 725
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References

1 Antonaras, Compare A., “Early Christian and Byzantine glass vessels: forms and uses,” in Daim, F. and Drauschke, J. (edd.), Byzanz — Das Römerreich im Mittelalter, 1: Welt der Ideen, Welt der Dinge (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz 2010) 383–430 Google Scholar.

2 Antonaras did part of his studies in Serbia and can access and read most of the publications from the countries under former Yugoslav rule.

3 Roberts, P., Gudenrath, W., Tatton-Brown, V. and Whitehouse, D., Roman cameo glass in the British Museum (London 2010)Google Scholar, reviewed by Weiss, C. at JRA 25 (2012) 640–50Google Scholar. For R. Lierke’s reconstructions, see Die nicht-geblasenen antiken Glasgefässe / The non-blown ancient glass vessels (Mainz 2009)Google Scholar, reviewed by Stern, E. M. at JRA 24 (2011) 619–26Google Scholar.

4 For the terminology, see Grose, D., Early ancient glass: the Toledo Museum of Art (New York 1989) 261 and 339–41Google Scholar, with excellent photographs of the undersides of nos. 609 and 611-12 showing the uninterrupted mosaic patterns. Lierke’s convincing reconstruction of the production technique (in Lierke [supra n.3]), accepted by Antonaras, postdates the publication of Grose’s book.

5 Goldstein, S., Pre-Roman and Early Roman glass in the Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, NY 1979) 34, figs 8-9Google Scholar.

6 For a discussion and photographs of the moulds, see Stern, E. M., “Souffler le verre dans des moules,” in Fontaine-Hodiamont, C. (ed.), D’Ennion au Val Saint-Lambert (Brussels 2010) at 32–33 Google Scholar.

7 Stern, E. M., Roman mold-blown glass: the Toledo Museum of Art (Rome 1995) 28 Google Scholar, also reproduced in Stern (supra n.6) 30.

8 Pucellas is the dignified Italian term used throughout the volume for the more colloquial ‘jacks’ commonly heard in North American glass shops. After the blowpipe, they are the glassblower's most important tool.

9 Compare the pliers adapted for squeezing by a Toledo glassblower, depicted by Stern, E. M., “The production of glass vessels in Roman Cilicia,” KJb 22 (1989) at 127, figs. 10-11Google Scholar.

10 On the importance of listing the weight of vessels, see Stern, E. M., “Roman glass by the pound,” AJA 104 (2000) 341 Google Scholar.

11 For the names of the patterns, cf. Grose (supra n.4).

12 Cf. Mentasti, R. Barovier et al., Mille anni di arte del vetro a Venezia (Venice 1982) no. 486 (Fratelli Toso, 1900-15)Google Scholar; ibid. nos. 429-30, striped vessels inspired by ancient examples.

13 Compare the marbled effects of bottles in the Wolf collection: Stern, E. M., Roman, Byzantine and Early Medieval glass (Ostfildern-Ruit 2001) nos. 2-6Google Scholar.

14 Oliver, A., Ancient glass in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA 1980) no. 65Google Scholar; Stern 1995 (supra n.7) 103-8, nos. 8-10.

15 Cf. Oliver, A., “Early Roman faceted glass,” JGS 26 (1984) 35–58 Google Scholar.

16 Stern (supra n.13) 27 and 153.

17 Ibid. nos. 138-39.

18 Cool, H. E. M. and Price, J., Roman vessel glass from excavations in Colchester, 1971-85 (Colchester 1995) 102, fig. 6.6Google Scholar.

19 Barag, D., “The glassware,” in Yadin, Y., The finds from the Bar Kochba period in the Cave of Letters (Jerusalem 1965) 104, no. 7Google Scholar.

20 Vecchio, F. Del, Le produzioni della prima e media età imperiale soffiate con l'ausilio di matrici (Florence 2004) 31–32 Google Scholar.

21 Ibid. 35.

22 Taborelli, L., “Indagine preliminare sui contenitori in vetro per il trasporto e la conservazione del vino e del garum,” Opus 12–13 (1993–1994) at 2–3 Google Scholar.