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- Title
Crown Glass Windows from Masada.
- Authors
Max, Yael
- Abstract
Seven partly restorable round glass windows, blown with the crown glass technique, were uncovered on Masada. The glass disks are rather large (Diam. 34-43 cm) and were probably fabricated at the same time by the same source. They were recovered from the Large Bathhouse and the entrance rooms to the central courtyard of Administrative Building VII. These buildings, like almost all of the structures on Masada, were destroyed by an earthquake sometime between the second and fourth centuries, ruling out the possibility of a late Roman or Byzantine origin for the glass. The windows were likely ordered by someone in authority who enjoyed access to the latest innovations in the making of window glass. Although no comparable windows were found elsewhere, their history points unequivocally to Herod the Great, thus suggesting that the most probable date for these windows is the last quarter of the first century B.C.E.
- Subjects
WINDOWS; GLASS art; WINDOWS in art; WINDOW frames; GLASS craft
- Publication
Journal of Glass Studies, 2020, Vol 62, p23
- ISSN
0075-4250
- Publication type
Article