Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 638
uc-tion, but the plainer kinds of glass must have been produced in manyplaces. Documentary evidence is not abundant. The Theodosian Codementions, among craftsmen exempt from certain taxation, Vitrear Li, vasavitrea conflantes;* while Consfcantine Porphyrogenitus states that theEmperor Romanus… … Fig. 388. Glass bowl with enclosed gold ornament from Canosa, probably made in Egyptin the third century a. d. (British Museum.) MSS., mosaics, and frescoes. Such are the small phials with globularbody and straight neck seen upon the desks of the seated Evangelistswhose portraits are placed at the…
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