Abraded and engraved Late Roman glasses with human representations

磨损并雕刻有人类图案的晚期罗马眼镜

• 批准号: 244892357
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Achim Arbeiter
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Christliche Archäologie und Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2012-12-31 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/244892357?language=en
• 关键词: Abraded; engraved; Late; Roman; glasses

Glass vessels bearing abraded or engraved decoration represent quite a significant part of Late Antiquity material culture (in this case: late 3rd to 5th cent.). Among them there is an exquisite allotment with human representations of mundane, mythological or Christian nature, manufactured chiefly in Italy and in the Rhineland. Even today, researchers speculate about their possible roles in everyday life as well as liturgical and sepulchral contexts. Only some 150 pieces are at hand - some of them being completely preserved, others as fragments - scattered over European and American museums and collections. Never were they compiled to be studied as a category of its own due to the enormous technical difficulties encountered when attempting to document and to reproduce those engravings in the highly delicate glasses. These obstacles have finally become superable - due to modern optical (e.g. digital microscopy) and material scientific technologies (e.g. portable X-ray fluorescence analysis). Thus, our archaeological and cultural research is going to employ present-day analytical equipment in order to extract as much raw information from the objects as is currently feasible. The entire inventory of Late Roman engraved glass with human representations will be addressed in order to arrive at substantiated conclusions regarding workshop groups, artistic practice (style, iconography), inscriptions, meaning and functions of the glasses.

带有磨损或雕刻装饰的玻璃器皿代表了古代晚期物质文化的相当重要的一部分（在这种情况下：第三世纪晚期到第五世纪）。其中有精美的部分，描绘了世俗、神话或基督教本质的人类表现，主要在意大利和莱茵兰制造。即使在今天，研究人员仍在推测它们在日常生活以及礼拜仪式和墓葬环境中可能扮演的角色。目前仅有约 150 件藏品——其中一些完整保存，另一些则为碎片——分散在欧洲和美国的博物馆和收藏中。由于在尝试在高度精致的玻璃中记录和复制这些雕刻时遇到了巨大的技术困难，因此它们从未被作为一个单独的类别进行研究。由于现代光学（例如数字显微镜）和材料科学技术（例如便携式 X 射线荧光分析），这些障碍终于变得可以克服。因此，我们的考古和文化研究将采用当今的分析设备，以便从目前可行的物品中提取尽可能多的原始信息。将讨论整个晚期罗马雕刻玻璃的人类代表，以便就研讨会小组、艺术实践（风格、图像）、铭文、玻璃的意义和功能得出切实的结论。