Indian glass in the Middle East? Medieval and Ottoman glass bangles from central Jordan

Journal of Glass Studies

Volumn 51, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Boulogne, Stéphanie ^a,b   Henderson, Julian ^c  

^a UMR6572   (France)

^b Université de Versailels Saint Quentin en Yvelines   (Jordan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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