This morning the postman brought me a parcel from my
favourite archaeological bookshop and....it contained the 'Jennie Price
Festschrift', a.k.a. “Glass of the Roman World”(http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/glass-of-the-roman-empire.html).
It is the proceedings of a Conference held in 2006 in London in honour of
Professor Jennifer Price. It has taken a few years to produce, but I hope
Jennie Price will forgive all us contributors; after all thanks to Justine
Bailey, Ian Freestone and Caroline Jackson (and the unnamed staff at Oxbow) the
book has turned out to be very beautiful, with lots of colour pictures
throughout the 18 contributions. Contributors are not usually asked to write
reviews so I won’t, but I have spent most of the afternoon rereading the
contributions of the others and I will probably spend the next two days
updating various of my in-print articles with better references. There is lots
of stuff on Roman glass making technology (mostly written in a way that does
not require a degree in Chemistry) as well as the more traditional papers on various
glass assemblages, as well as an article on Roman enamels and enamelling.
Over all this is turning out to be a great twelve month for Roman
glass books. My bookshelf has grown by at least thirty centimetres, what with “Neighbours
and Successors of Rome” and the Tripoli Museum
catalog to name but a few. It seems I might have to revisit this topic in
more detail over the summer, for now: sorry, time to get back to the book and
enjoy myself some more. Oh and, Congratulations and Thanks to the Editors –
Great Job!
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