. Glass. rvived; we are thus able to fix within exceptionallynarrow limits the date of most of the glass discovered inthe ruins. Apart from a few elaborate examples extractedfrom the tombs—some of these may well be of an earlierdate—we find a vast series of vessels adapted to variousdomestic purposes, but more especially to uses connectedwith the storing and drinking of wine. These are for themost part made of a transparent and often colourlessblown glass. By this time, then, the art of the glass-blower must have been fully developed in Southern Pompeian glass has been well preserved
. Glass. rvived; we are thus able to fix within exceptionallynarrow limits the date of most of the glass discovered inthe ruins. Apart from a few elaborate examples extractedfrom the tombs—some of these may well be of an earlierdate—we find a vast series of vessels adapted to variousdomestic purposes, but more especially to uses connectedwith the storing and drinking of wine. These are for themost part made of a transparent and often colourlessblown glass. By this time, then, the art of the glass-blower must have been fully developed in Southern Pompeian glass has been well preserved by the thickbed of dry ashes, and has suffered little from surfacedecomposition. From a few scattered references in Roman writers wecan in a measure trace the rapid change in the positionof glass at Rome, say between the latter days of theRepublic and the end of the reign of Augustus. Ciceromentions glass as an article of merchandise brought fromEgypt, together with paper and linen. Strabo, writing60.
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