Unique Roman glass dish found at London grave site
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (63643)
United States
April 30, 2009 6:15am CST
Disintered from a Roman grave site in an area that was formerly a car park but now being prepared for redevelopement, this beautiful dish, unlike any found in the Western Roman Empire. It was amoung a number of things found in this cache of grave goods found at this site. This site has a number of things going for it for archiologist. The area was once covered by Victorian houses flattened by the German bombing and the rubble from the houses have protected the grave site.
There's a beautiful picture of the dish, too bad they didn't get it before the color changed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090429/sc_nm/us_britain_roman_find_1
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@baileycows (3665)
• United States
30 Apr 09
Oh I think it is just beautiful with the color change, but your right I bet without the color change it was just gorgeous. This is really neat. I love to hear of things they find making it seem real instead of just in a history book.
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@jwfarrimond (4473)
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30 Apr 09
That dish was probably quite old by the time that it was buried. It probably origionally came from the Eastern Mediterranian, perhaps from Alexandria which had a large glass industry about the time of the Emperor Augustus. For anyone who is interested, the following links to Wicki articles give more information about Roman Glass and the millifiori technique.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_glass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millefiori
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@jillmalitz (5131)
• United States
30 Apr 09
This kind of stuff absolutely fascinates me no end. I have always been interested in ancient history and the relics that have been and are now being found. I wonder how much is out there that we have not yet found? Even thought the US is only 200+ years old I still am interested at things we keep finding.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
3 May 09
I didn't get to see the dish but that is wonderful, I love this stuff
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@tamarafireheart (15384)
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30 Apr 09
Hi Elic,
Wow!!! that is beautiful, I think I might go along and have a look at it in the musiem and also go along to the dig to watch them, its only a train ride awa from me, I use to work around there, wow!!
Tamara
@tamarafireheart (15384)
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29 Oct 11
Hi Eclic,
thanks for the B/R for this discussion, more of it please, take care, hugs.
Tamara
@eztuner (450)
• United States
30 Apr 09
Tremendous discovery! Just recently, I wrote a little article about Murano Glass, and I came to see various pieces dated from the Roman Empire and the Egyptian times at the Museo Vetrario, here is the link if you wish to read a short article on Murano Glass. Hope you enjoy it!
http://www.quazen.com/Recreation/Collecting/Murano-Glass.652093
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
1 May 09
It's beautiful, it is a shame about the colour but isn't it amazing that something so fragile can still be intact after all this time! I would love to find something like that. I remember years ago while I was visiting Rome I came across an area that was being dug up for relics. This was during the mid eighties and they were still finding things, it is fascinating to imagine what life would have been like when the relics were actually been used! Thanks for showing us this beautiful dish!
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@scififan43 (2434)
• United States
30 Apr 09
Hi ElicBxn, I have just looked over the aricle and I do find it amazing that something that frigal survived over the years. WOW! I am sure it will go into some musem in the futre after extensive study.
@Canellita (12029)
• United States
6 May 09
Archeology has always been interesting to me. It is amazing how entire civilizations have been literally paved over when new ones progressed and planted themselves on top of locations that had previously hosted others.
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