Imported Glass Vessels from the eastern stretches of the Silk Road in Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (First to Minth Century)

Bartłomiej Szymon Szmoniewski, Ph.D. is archaeologist at the Institute of Archaeology and  Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, working at the Centre for the Archaeology of Mountains  and Uplands in Kraków. His research focuses on trade, technology, and intercultural connectionsin the Early Middle Ages across Europe and Asia.He is a recipient of several research fellowships including te Visiting Programme for Young Sinologists of the Chinese Ministry of Culture and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). 

Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Scope of the study
2. Sources and State of Research on Glassware from Eastern Asia
3. The Historical context
3.1. Mongolia and Beyond
3.1.1. Xlongnu Realm
3.2. The Korean Peninsula
3.2.1. The Silla Kingdom
3.2.2. Confederacy of Gaya
3.2.3. The Kingdom of Baekje
3.3. The Japanese Archipelago
3.3.1. Japan in the Kofun and Nara Periods
4. Location of Glass Artefact Finds
4.1. Funerary context
4.1.1. Xiongnu Realm
4.1.2. Gaya confederation and Silla Kingdom
4.1.2.1. Gaya
4.1.2.2. Silla
4.1.3. Japan
4.2. Ritual context
4.2.1. Buddhist sacral sites in Eastern Asia
4.2.1.1. Finds of glass vessels in Buddhist Sacral Sites along Silk Road and beyond
4.2.2. The Korean Peninsula
4.2.2.1. Silla
4.2.2.2. Baekje
4.2.3. Japan
4.2.3.1. Shimó
4.2.3.2. Buddhism
5. Types of Glass in Eastern Asia
5.1. The Problem of Local Glass Production -General Remarks
5.2. The characterization of Glass Vessels lmports based on Specialist Analysis
5.2.1. Natron glass
5.2.1.1. Natron glass -chemical-technological method
5.2.1.2. Natron glass groups -compositional group
5.2.2. Ash glass
6. Techniques
7. Typological and Chronological Analysis of Glass Vessels
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Bowls
7.2.1. Ribbed bowls
7.2.2. Fragile ribbed bowls (zarte Rippenschalen)
7.2.3. Bowls with facets
7.2.3.1. Bowls with Facets from the Sasanian Circle
7.2.3.2. Bowls with Facets from the Mediterranean Circle
7.2.4. Bowl on Stem
7.2.5. Undecorated bowls
7.3. Cups
7.3.1. Undecorated cups
7.3.2. Decorated Cups with Blue Dots
7.3.3. Cups decorated with an Annular Ornament
7.4. Beakers
7.5. Jugs
7.6. A Dish
7.7. A Toilet Bottle
7.8. A Twelve-Lobed Bowl
7.9. Fragments of Thumb Rests
7.10. Other indeterminate Glass Fragmem
7.11. Ceramic lmitations of Glass Vessels
8. Trade contacts across Afro-Eurasia: an Overview Based on Finds of Gold and Silver Glass beads
9. Perception of Glass in Communities in the Eastern Asia
9.1. Glass in some selected contexts of written Sources
9.2. The Problem of ldentiłing Local Glass Production in the Chinese Context
9.3. Towards an Understanding of the Cultural and Symbolic Role of Glass Vessels in East Asian
Societies
9.4. Translucent Aesthetics: The Role of lmported Glass Vessels in Buddhist Pictorial Traditions
10. Potential Centres of Glass Production
10.1. The Roman Circle of Glass production
10.2. The Sasanian Glassmaking tradition
10.3. The Central Asian Glassmking Tradition
11. Distribution Networks of Glass in Eastern Asia and Their Chronology
11.1. Trade Routes: A Brief Overview
11.2. Temporal and Spatial Patterns ofTransmission and Distribution
12. The Social Context of Glass Vessels
12.1. Introductory Remarks
12.2. The Funerary Context
12.3. Glass Vessels as Elements of Ritual and Cultural Memory
13. Conclusions
Summaries
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