Political and technological changes, glass provenance and a new glass production model along the west Asian Silk Road
We consider some of the social, political, and economic factors that led to the mass production of glass, especially during the ‘Abbasid Caliphate. Scientific analysis is used to investigate glass production, and consider how these factors can be used to interpret the results having defined glass te...
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| description | We consider some of the social, political, and economic factors that led to the mass production of glass, especially during the ‘Abbasid Caliphate. Scientific analysis is used to investigate glass production, and consider how these factors can be used to interpret the results having defined glass technology and its provenance for glass derived from a 2000-mile area of the Middle East, between Egypt and northern Iran. The results show evidence of production in the Levant, northern Syria, and Iran/Iraq as well as sub-zones associated with cosmopolitan urban centers in Cairo, Beirut, Damascus, Al-Raqqa, Samarra, Ctesiphon, and Nishapur and specialized production of specific vessel types. It is shown that glass trade occurred between these hubs with limited recycling within a decentralized production system forming part of the ‘Abbasid economic boom. |
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| spelling | nottingham-647872021-03-24T02:32:37Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64787/ Political and technological changes, glass provenance and a new glass production model along the west Asian Silk Road Henderson, Julian Chenerya, Simon Fabera, Edward W. Krögerd, Jens We consider some of the social, political, and economic factors that led to the mass production of glass, especially during the ‘Abbasid Caliphate. Scientific analysis is used to investigate glass production, and consider how these factors can be used to interpret the results having defined glass technology and its provenance for glass derived from a 2000-mile area of the Middle East, between Egypt and northern Iran. The results show evidence of production in the Levant, northern Syria, and Iran/Iraq as well as sub-zones associated with cosmopolitan urban centers in Cairo, Beirut, Damascus, Al-Raqqa, Samarra, Ctesiphon, and Nishapur and specialized production of specific vessel types. It is shown that glass trade occurred between these hubs with limited recycling within a decentralized production system forming part of the ‘Abbasid economic boom. Topoi 2021-01-13 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64787/1/Political%20and%20technological%20changes%2C%20glass%20provenance%20and%20a%20new%20glass%20production%20model%20along%20the%20west%20Asian%20Silk%20Road.pdf Henderson, Julian, Chenerya, Simon, Fabera, Edward W. and Krögerd, Jens (2021) Political and technological changes, glass provenance and a new glass production model along the west Asian Silk Road. In: From artificial stone to transparent mass product: innovations in glass technology and their social consequences between the Bronze Age and antiquity. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World (67). Topoi, pp. 119-143. ISBN 9783981968552 Silk Road; glass; provenance; production model https://edition-topoi.org/book/1598-vom-kuenstlichen-stein-zum-durchsichtigen-massenprodukt/ 10.17171/3-67 10.17171/3-67 10.17171/3-67 |
| spellingShingle | Silk Road; glass; provenance; production model Henderson, Julian Chenerya, Simon Fabera, Edward W. Krögerd, Jens Political and technological changes, glass provenance and a new glass production model along the west Asian Silk Road |
| title | Political and technological changes, glass provenance and a new glass production model along the west Asian Silk Road |
| title_full | Political and technological changes, glass provenance and a new glass production model along the west Asian Silk Road |
| title_fullStr | Political and technological changes, glass provenance and a new glass production model along the west Asian Silk Road |
| title_full_unstemmed | Political and technological changes, glass provenance and a new glass production model along the west Asian Silk Road |
| title_short | Political and technological changes, glass provenance and a new glass production model along the west Asian Silk Road |
| title_sort | political and technological changes, glass provenance and a new glass production model along the west asian silk road |
| topic | Silk Road; glass; provenance; production model |
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