. Glass. HANGINC; (iF SC UI-PTUREl) GLASS BYZANTINE GLASS tells us, Benedict Biscop obtained, a little later, skilledcraftsmen to make the glass for his new church at MonkWearmouth, In the ode that Paul the Silentiary wrote for theopening ceremony at St. Sophia (563 ), he speaks ofsilver discs, hanging from chains and pierced to receivevessels of fire-wrought glass, shaped like the butt of aspear (ou^iaxos) (Lethabys Santa Sophia, p. 50 seq.)} We have here in these lamps what is probably thefirst mention of a new use for our material—one whichbecame before long, for a time, the domi
. Glass. HANGINC; (iF SC UI-PTUREl) GLASS BYZANTINE GLASS tells us, Benedict Biscop obtained, a little later, skilledcraftsmen to make the glass for his new church at MonkWearmouth, In the ode that Paul the Silentiary wrote for theopening ceremony at St. Sophia (563 ), he speaks ofsilver discs, hanging from chains and pierced to receivevessels of fire-wrought glass, shaped like the butt of aspear (ou^iaxos) (Lethabys Santa Sophia, p. 50 seq.)} We have here in these lamps what is probably thefirst mention of a new use for our material—one whichbecame before long, for a time, the dominant one. In the spear-butt shaped lamps of St. Sophia we may see theprototypes of the conical oil-cups of the Saracens. Glass, however, was never held in great honour inthe ceremonies of the Christian Church. Chalices andpatens of glass are indeed mentioned in the Liber Ponti-ficalis as in use at the end of the second century: writes of the Lords blood being borne in avessel of glass, and som
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