The use of glass lamps can be traced back to the early Roman imperial period, at which time they were modeled after clay lucernae. A very small number of them have been preserved in their entirety. When fragmented, they are very difficult to recognize. In the late imperial period, glass lamps were made in a significantly larger number, were different in shape, and were used to illuminate private, public, and sacred spaces. This paper presents a fragment of glass lamp from Cibalae.

De Twee Rozen glasshouse was one of the best-known glasshouses in seventeenth-century Amsterdam and an important producer of glass in the Venetian style. It occupied two sites: initially at Keizersgracht, from 1621, it then moved in 1657 to Rozengracht, further from the center of the city. Production debris recovered from a deposit close to the Keizersgracht site were originally attributed to an earlier glasshouse, but a reinterpretation in light of more recent excavations firmly attributes these glasses to the first location of De Twee Rozen. We present 50 new SEM-EDS analyses of vessel glass, moils, trim-offs, unfinished objects, and production waste from the later site at Rozengracht and compare these with previously published analyses from both sites. Several changes in glass technology appear to have been introduced following the change of location. First, a cristallo-type technology, involving the purification of ashes to produce a glass with lower Fe2O3 appears to have been used exclusively at Rozengracht. Thus, the introduction of glass production in the Venetian style was not accompanied by the signature Venetian glassmaking technology, which seems to have followed later. Second, the relatively new method of opacification using antimony was introduced, along with other changes, such as the introduction of lead into the cobalt-blue glass used in polychrome decorative canes. The origins of these new technologies are discussed in particular in view of the presence of the chemist Johann Rudolf Glauber at De Twee Rozen and its direction by a Venetian master, Nicalao Stua, from 1667.

The article gathers engraved glasses with figured decoration dated from the fourth or early fifth century discovered in the southern half of France. It extends an earlier article devoted to engraved glasses with figurative decoration dated from the second and third centuries (Journal of Glass Studies 65, 2023). These glasses (about 40 pieces), classified according to their style of engraving, come for the most part from workshops in the region of Rome, and the style with lozenge-shaped eyes dominates. However, the share of glasses from workshops in the Rhine Valley is not negligible (more than a quarter). This distribution modifies the earlier maps and suggests more important commercial relations than one would suspect between the south of Gaul and the Rhine region. It cannot be excluded that these exogenous glasses were brought back by soldiers previously stationed on the Rhine.