Molten color : glassmaking in antiquity / Karol B. Wight.

Title: 
Molten color : glassmaking in antiquity / Karol B. Wight.

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Author/Artist: 
Wight, Karol, 1958-
Publisher: 
Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, c2011.
Description: 
viii, 136 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 22 cm.
Format of Material: 
Books
Subjects: 
Glass manufacture History.
Glassware, Ancient.
Bib ID: 
121973
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Location: 
Ready Reference
Call Number: 
TP850.W65
Location: 
Secured Stacks
Call Number: 
TP850.W65
Location: 
Stacks
Call Number: 
TP850.W65
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Variant Title: 
Glassmaking in antiquity
Notes: 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 128) and index.
Purchase; Amazon; 2013; 1000132942
Contents: 
What is glass? --
The birth of glass: Mesopotamia and Egypt --
Glass in the Mediterranean world --
The discovery of inflating glass --
Glass in the Roman world --
Glass in the later empire: regional distinctions --
How was glass used? --
Glossary of glass terms.
ISBN: 
9781606060537 (pbk.)
1606060538 (pbk.)

Object/Material Note

Object/Material Note: 
Includes CMoG objects: 55.1.86, p. 63-64, 72 (fig. 48) -- 66.1.36, p. 76, 82 (fig. 52, top, bottom) -- 70.1.8, p. 76, 84 (fig. 53) -- 87.1.1, p. 77-78, 92 (fig. 65) -- 55.1.94, p. 102-103, 109 (fig. 77).