. Glass. ROMAN CLASS FROM BRITISH GRAVES INSCRIPTIONS ON ROMAN GLASS and this is true even of the neighbourhood of suchimportant stations as York and Cirencester. In the case of the glass of the ancients, the material isso vast, so varied, and spread over so wide an area, that aconcentrated treatment of the subject, as this must needsbe, is rendered very difficult. Much that is both interest-ing and important must be omitted or only briefly alludedto; and this must be my excuse for making little morethan a passing mention of the inscriptions found at timeson this glass. These inscriptions fall
. Glass. ROMAN CLASS FROM BRITISH GRAVES INSCRIPTIONS ON ROMAN GLASS and this is true even of the neighbourhood of suchimportant stations as York and Cirencester. In the case of the glass of the ancients, the material isso vast, so varied, and spread over so wide an area, that aconcentrated treatment of the subject, as this must needsbe, is rendered very difficult. Much that is both interest-ing and important must be omitted or only briefly alludedto; and this must be my excuse for making little morethan a passing mention of the inscriptions found at timeson this glass. These inscriptions fall into two classes:—i. A pro-pitiatory sentence or expression of well-wishing addressed,it would seem, to the person to whom the piece is pre-sented ; of such we have already given some The name of the maker. With few exceptions theseinscriptions are confined to glass that has been blowninto a mould, and this for practical reasons which will beobvious. The signature of Ennion may be read in m
Size: 1057px × 2364px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublisherlondonmethuenandco
