Spectacular Translucence: The Games in Glass

Glass cups bearing labeled images of charioteers and gladiators were popular between AD 50 and 80 and have been found throughout the empire’s northwestern quadrant, including Italy. Fashioned in the recently invented technique of mold-blowing, their words and images were doubly legible on the transl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kimberly Cassibry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2018-08-01
Series:Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal
Subjects:
art
Online Access:https://traj.openlibhums.org/articles/359