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Jim Wald

Another fascinating tidbit from the excellent series of videos produced by the Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle:

This beautiful and fragile piece of Frankish glassware came to Thüringen from Cologne far to the west (c. 470-530)

But how?

Written sources dating to Classical Antiquity explain that delicate glassware was shipped in boxes filled with butter

youtu.be/t0XBlhAWF2o?t=162

scene from video: Harald Meller holds an extremely delicate light-green drinking vessel in the form of an elongated cone (Spitzglas) with a pointed end rather than a flat base on which it could stand
#archaeology#MaterialCulture
Jan 17, 2023, 04:34 AM·Public·Web
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