Ancient murrhine ware and its glass evocations

Journal of Glass Studies

Volumn 49, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Tressaud, Alain ^a   Vickers, Michael ^a  

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References (39)

1. Michael Vickers, "Hamilton, Geology, Stone Vases and Taste, " Journal of the History of Collections, v. 9, no. 2, 1997, pp. 263-274, esp. p. 266
2. For trade between Rome and Parthia, see, for example, John F. Matthews, "The Tax-Law of Palmyra: Evidence for Economic History in a City of the Roman East, " Journal of Roman Studies, v. 74, 1984, pp. 157-180
3. Ernest Will, Les Palmyréns: La Venise des sables, Paris: A. Colin, 1992
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5. and Warwick Ball, Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire, London: Routledge, 2001. None of these mentions murrhine ware, however
6. The Utopians systematically disparaged gold and silver, used golden chamber pots, and drank from ceramic and glass. Cf. William S. Heckscher, "Pearls from a Dungheap: Andrea Alciati's 'Offensive' Emblem, 'Adversus Naturam Peccantes', in Art, the Ape of Nature: Studies in Honor of H. W. Janson, ed. Moshe Marasch and Lucy Freeman Sandler, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981, pp. 291-311
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8. Trevor D. Ford, Derbyshire Blue John, Ashbourne, Derbyshire: Landmark Publishing, 2000
9. For example, A. M. [sic], "On Dr. Hager's Murrhine Vases, " Classical Journal, 1810, p. 472: "If you compare this [Pliny's] description with the vases of Fluosparth from Derbyshire, you will soon be convinced of what the murrhine cups were composed."
10. See also M. Rozière, "Mémoire sur les vases murrhins qu'on apportait jadis en Egypte, et sur ceux qui s'y fabriquaient, " in Description de l'Egypte ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française, v. 6, Paris: Imprimerie Imperiale, 1822, C. L. F. Panckoucke, pp. 227-250
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14. Cf. Louis de Launay, Minéralogie des anciens, Brussels: Weissenbruch, 1803
15. Ernest Babelon, "Murrhina vasa, " in Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines, d'après les textes et les monuments, contenant l'explication des termes qui se rapportent aux moeurs, aux institutions, à la religion, et en général à la vie publique et privée des anciens, ed. Charles Daremberg, Edmond Saglio, and Edmond Pottier, Paris: Hachette, 1877-1919; and Vickers [note 1]
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20. The millefiori glass hypothesis may owe something to the Venetian vetro murrino (murrhine glass), known since the 16th century. It is composed of twisted colored glass rods or molten glass fused together to make a variety of objects. Cf. Attilia Dorigato, Le Verre de Murano, Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2003
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26. Cf. Hans-Peter Bühler, Antike Gefässe aus Edelsteinen, Mainz: von Zabern, 1973
27. In general, see D. E. Eichholtz, ed., Pliny, Natural History, Loeb Classical Library, v. 10, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, and London: W. Heinemann, 1962
28. Cf. Valentine Roux, "Le Travail des lapidaires, " in Les Pierres précieuses de l'orient ancien des Sumériens aux Sassanides, ed. Françoise Talion, Exposition-dossier du Département des Antiquités Orientales, v. 49, Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1995, pp. 39-44, esp. pp. 39 and 44, fig. 3
29. See Gus W. Van Beek, "Frankincense and Myrrh, " Biblical Archaeology, v. 23, no. 3, 1960, pp. 70-95
30. idem, "The Land of Sheba, " in Solomon and Sheba, ed. James B. Pritchard, London: Phaidon, 1974
31. and Nigel Groom, Frankincense and Myrrh: A Study of the Arabian Incense Trade, London and New York: Longman, 1980
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33. Cf. Ridolfino Venuti, Accurata e succinta descrizione delle antichità di Roma, Rome: Presso Pietro Piale e Mariano de Romanis, 1763, 2.22
34. D. Williams, "Crystalline Matter, " British Museum Magazine, Spring 2004, p. 47
35. Employing a technique that had already been used in Egypt, Syria, and Mesopotamia from the mid-second millennium B.C. See, for example, Florence Slitine, Histoire de verre: L'Antiquité, Paris: Massin Editeur, 2005, pp. 26-32
36. See, for example, Murray McClellan, "Core-formed Glass from Dated Contexts, " Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1984
37. David F. Grose, The Toledo Museum of Art. Early Ancient Glass: Core-formed, Rod-formed, and Cast Vessels and Objects from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Roman Empire, 1600 B.C. to A.D. 50, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the museum, 1989
38. and H. Schroeder, "Ancient Greek Glass from the Eastern Black Sea Littoral: A Provenance Study, " M.Sc. thesis, Oxford University, 2004
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