Los vidrios de ciudad de Vascos (Toledo) (ss. X-XI)

Ares, Jorge de Juan; Gutíérrez, Yasmina Cáceres

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“…Group 1 is the smallest group with only seven fragments, mostly colourless and belonging to flat or sheet glass, some of which are cut into regular pieces, possibly indicating a decorative function [ 14 ]. All these fragments derive from domestic contexts south of the citadel, possibly the richest area in the city ( Fig 1 ).…”

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“…Group 2 entails small tubular flasks, bottles and almost all mould-blown and engraved vessels. Group 3 shows a wide typological diversity, it was used in jewellery, bottles, unguentaria, dishes and goblets, one of which is decorated with circular boss at the centre (VS093) (Fig 2.19 [ 14 ]) characteristic of some Near Eastern glasses (e.g. No.…”

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“…The renewed occupation was accompanied by the arrival of new glasses made from vegetable soda. The glass was no doubt imported to Vascos as there is no evidence of glass working on site [ 14 ]. This has important implications for our understanding of the supply networks and their changes during the Middle Ages.…”

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“…Decorations are restricted to very few fragments like unguentaria with applied trail decorations, a few examples of scratch-engraved ornaments and mould decorations that have parallels in glass objects from the Near East. The assemblage exhibits a relatively wide chromatic variety with a preponderance of colourless and weak colours (greenish, bluish, yellowish) and a few strong colours such as blue, green and purple [ 14 ].…”

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Glass import and production in Hispania during the early medieval period: The glass from Ciudad de Vascos (Toledo)

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Schibille

2017

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One hundred and forty-one glass fragments from medieval Ciudad de Vascos (Toledo, Spain) were analysed by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). The glasses fall into three types according to the fluxing agents used: mineral natron, soda-rich plant ash, and a combination of soda ash and lead. The natron glasses can be assigned to various established primary production groups of eastern Mediterranean provenance. Different types of plant ash glasses indicate differences in the silica source as well as the plant ash component, reflecting changing supply mechanisms. While the earlier plant ash groups can be related to Islamic glasses from the Near East, both in terms of typology and composition, the chemical signature of the later samples appear to be specific to glass from the Iberian Peninsula. This has important implications for our understanding of the emerging glass industry in Spain and the distribution patterns of glass groups and raw materials. The plant ash that was used for the Vascos glasses is rich in soda with low levels of potash, similar to ash produced in the eastern Mediterranean. It could therefore be possible that Levantine plant ash was imported and used in Islamic period glass workshops in Spain. Unlike central and northern Europe where an independent glass industry based on potassium-rich wood ash developed during the Carolingian period, the prevalence of soda ash and soda ash lead glass on the Iberian Peninsula indicates its commercial and technological interconnection with the Islamic east. Our study thus traces several stages leading to the development of a specifically Spanish primary glassmaking industry.

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2017

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“…In the central part of the Peninsula, the urban areas of Recópolis (Olmo Enciso and Castro Priego 2008) and Vega Baja (Aranda González 2013; De Juan Ares and Cáceres Gutiérrez 2010; De Juan Ares et al 2009; Gómez Laguna et al 2009) contain productions created mostly with a potter's wheel from Visigothic times. In contrast, in many of the rural areas of this part of the Peninsula, ceramics made with a turntable are the most documented from the fifth century until the end of the eighth or even the ninth century (Grassi and Vigil-Escalera Guirado 2017; Serrano Herrero et al 2016; Vigil-Escalera Guirado 2003, 385).…”

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Ceramics in transition: ceramics from the first Islamic period in the western Mediterranean – the example of al-Andalus

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Lloret²

2020

Libyan Stud

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This paper updates the present knowledge of ceramic productions in the Western Mediterranean in the early Middle Ages through the example of al-Andalus. The study of pottery production is a key element for recognizing the process of Islamization, the formation of al-Andalus, and the important social and economic changes that took placed in the Mediterranean between the seventh and ninth centuries. From a historical point of view, the early Middle Ages is a transcendental moment of change: patterns and socioeconomic models of the ancient world began to fade, and the evolution towards the development of feudal societies and, in parallel, the emergence of Islamic culture started. In the Iberian Peninsula, the arrival of the Arab-Berber army in AD 711 and its rapid conquest over a few years generated a process of social change know today as Islamization, which encompasses two centuries (eighth and ninth), and culminates in the tenth century with the standardization of a culture that is recognized from that moment on as Islamic culture. In this paper, the central elements of ceramic production in early al-Andalus are analysed, including the coexistence of diverse manufacturing techniques, the gradual disappearance of standardized productions, regionalization of production centres, and the incorporation of new forms and techniques such as glaze.

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Los vidrios de ciudad de Vascos (Toledo) (ss. X-XI)

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Glass import and production in Hispania during the early medieval period: The glass from Ciudad de Vascos (Toledo)

Glass import and production in Hispania during the early medieval period: The glass from Ciudad de Vascos (Toledo)

Ceramics in transition: ceramics from the first Islamic period in the western Mediterranean – the example of al-Andalus

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