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- Title
Late Bronze Age Glass Production on Rhodes, Greece.
- Authors
Triantafyllidis, Pavlos; Karatasios, Ioannis
- Abstract
A substantial number of glass artifacts, mainly beads, have been found among the rich burial offerings of the Mycenaean cemeteries in the municipalities of Ialysos, Kamiros, and Southern Rhodes. A chunk of raw glass and a stone mold for manufacturing jewelry, uncovered at the settlement of Trianda, near Ialysos, offer strong evidence for a secondary glass workshop on Rhodes during the late phases of the Mycenaean period. Chemical analysis of the translucent turquoise glass chunk was carried out by energy-dispersive Xray analysis (SEM/EDX). The chunk is a soda-limesilica glass with elevated potash and magnesium, and its color is attributed to the use of copper. The composition is similar to that of translucent turquoise glasses from Tell Brak, Syria. The proposed Mesopotamian origin of this glass chunk from Rhodes is very significant. It should be viewed within the broader context of intensive commercial activity that took place in the Aegean, and especially on Rhodes, during the 14th and 13th centuries B.C.
- Subjects
RHODES (Greece : Island); GLASS craft; GLASS blowing &; working; GLASS; MYCENAEAN civilization; HISTORY of the glass industry; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Glass Studies, 2012, Vol 54, p25
- ISSN
0075-4250
- Publication type
Article