Volume 38 / Number 2

1996

Special Edition: Glass in the Roman World

On The Cover: Four examples of Roman glass in the collections of the University of Pennsylvania Museum Photo by H. Leedom Lefferts, Jr.

Vol. 38 / No. 2

By: Stuart J. Fleming

Early Imperial Roman Glass at the University of Pennsylvania Museum

Five years ago, when the ideas underlying the forthcoming exhibition Roman Glass: Reflections on Cultural Change were still in embryo, […]

Vol. 38 / No. 2

By: John Scarborough

The doctor stepped softly out of the sickroom, where Licinius was breathing his last. Rattling, rasping, wheezing, gasping for air, […]

Vol. 38 / No. 2

By: Hilary E. M. Cool

In AD 60 the town of Colchester, about 85 kilometers northeast of London (Fig. 2), was burnt to the ground […]

Vol. 38 / No. 2

By: Jeremy A. Sabloff

It is a great privilege and honor for me to be the eleventh Director (and the second Charles K. Williams […]

Vol. 38 / No. 2

By: Lee Horne

In the fall of 1997, more than 180 Roman glass vessels from the University of Pennsylvania Museum will be placed […]

Vol. 38 / No. 2

By: David Whitehouse

Gold-glasses—objects with gold foil ornament sandwiched between two fused layers of glass—were the first category of Roman glass to attract […]