2025/11/14 by Cristina Boschetti, Nadine Schibille, Craig A. Harvey +2 · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis #Archaeology and Historical Studies #Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
paper · doi:10.15184/aqy.2025.10248
Regular finds of glassware at Roman sites provide a useful dataset not just for constructing glass typologies but for the comparative analysis of base-glass compositions. Here, the authors explore the form and chemical composition of 79 glass fragments from Khirbet al-Khalde, a strategically important site in southern Jordan that was integrated into a major Roman roadway, the Via Nova Traiana, in the early second century AD. Their findings challenge current models, identifying abundant pre-fourth-century Egyptian glassware in an area believed to be predominantly supplied by Syro-Palestine and providing evidence for continued activity at the site into the eighth century.