. Glass. The onlyornament is a conventionalised hare carved in low reliefon each of the five compartments that divide the the base is a brief dedication in Arabic to Allah. Asto the material of this vase, all I can say is that it iscarved \ this is seen by the light reflected on the some-what unctuous surface; it is therefore not porcelain orother ceramic ware, as some have thought. The slightlywaxy lustre is in favour of its being a natural stoneof the turquoise order. Some, however, have held thisdish to be of a glass paste, on the ground of the minutebubbles on the translucent edge
. Glass. The onlyornament is a conventionalised hare carved in low reliefon each of the five compartments that divide the the base is a brief dedication in Arabic to Allah. Asto the material of this vase, all I can say is that it iscarved \ this is seen by the light reflected on the some-what unctuous surface; it is therefore not porcelain orother ceramic ware, as some have thought. The slightlywaxy lustre is in favour of its being a natural stoneof the turquoise order. Some, however, have held thisdish to be of a glass paste, on the ground of the minutebubbles on the translucent edge; but the existence ofthese bubbles is denied by others, and I myself failedto discover them (hgt. 11 in.) (liii. 122). I have dwelt in some detail on this little-knownByzantine glass at St. Marks, for it is, as a group, ofunique interest for our history, throwing light on somany obscure problems. We may obtain some slight hints as to the commonerkinds of glass in use by the Byzantine Greeks from the102. SITULA OF LATIC ROHAN OR liYZANTINE GLASS BYZANTINE GLASS illustrations of contemporary manuscripts. I will givean instance of frequent occurrence. The Evangelist whoon the opening page is represented seated at his deskengaged in writing his gospel, dips his pen into a littleflask of clear glass, of cylindrical body and straight is a simple form, easily turned out by the blowing-tube, without the use of the pontil. We may trace it allthrough the Middle Ages, and a flask very similar inshape is still used in the laboratory of the chemist. Apart from the more or less conventional renderingof the human figure—and this is what we usually thinkof in connection with Byzantine painting—we find twotendencies in the minor arts of the time; one classical,carrying on the old Greco-Roman tradition, the otherOriental in motive and feeling. For more than threehundred years the frontiers of the Roman and Sas-sanian empires were continually fluctuating, and in thisborder region,
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