Late antique/early Byzantine glass in the Eastern Mediterranean

Abstract

This volume comprises the published acts of the international colloquium entitled “Late Antique Glass in Anatolia (4th to 8th cent. A.D.)” that took place between the 25th and the 28th of October 2009 in Izmir, Turkey . This workshop was organized jointly by Dr Sylvia FÜNFSCHILLING (Augst) and by myself and took place at the Conference Hall of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Dokuz Eylül University. Both excavated finds and museum pieces were the subject of this workshop, offering a firm basis for the support of future research concerning Late Antique and Early Byzantine glass studies in Turkey. The aim was to report on the state of research concerning glass from Anatolia that is dated approximately between the 4th and 8th centuries A.D. However, the geographical scope of the papers presented included not only Turkey, but also Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Slovenia, the Crimea, Georgia, Lebanon, and Tunisia. The glass groups under consideration were vessels, lamps, window panes, slags, glass tesserae, and other items. Twenty-eight papers were presented at the workshop, with about fifty participants coming from twelve countries.