Abraded and engraved Late Roman glasses with human representations

带有磨损或雕刻装饰的玻璃器皿代表了古代晚期物质文化的相当重要的部分(在这种情况下：第三到第五美分。)其中有一个精致的分配与人类的世俗，神话或基督教性质的表现，主要在意大利和莱茵兰制造。即使在今天，研究人员仍在猜测它们在日常生活以及礼拜和坟墓环境中可能扮演的角色。手头只有大约150件藏品--其中一些是完整保存的，另一些是碎片--散落在欧洲和美国的博物馆和收藏品中。由于试图在高度精致的眼镜上记录和复制这些雕刻时遇到了巨大的技术困难，它们从未被汇编为一个单独的类别进行研究。由于现代光学技术(例如数字显微镜)和材料科学技术(例如便携式X射线荧光分析)，这些障碍终于变得可以克服。因此，我们的考古和文化研究将使用现代分析设备，以便尽可能多地从这些物品中提取当前可行的原始信息。将对晚期罗马雕刻玻璃的全部清单进行论述，以便就玻璃的作坊群体、艺术实践(风格、肖像)、铭文、意义和功能得出确凿的结论。

Glass vessels bearing abraded or engraved decoration represent quite a significant part of Late Antiquity material culture (in this case: late 3rd to 5th cent.). Among them there is an exquisite allotment with human representations of mundane, mythological or Christian nature, manufactured chiefly in Italy and in the Rhineland. Even today, researchers speculate about their possible roles in everyday life as well as liturgical and sepulchral contexts. Only some 150 pieces are at hand - some of them being completely preserved, others as fragments - scattered over European and American museums and collections. Never were they compiled to be studied as a category of its own due to the enormous technical difficulties encountered when attempting to document and to reproduce those engravings in the highly delicate glasses. These obstacles have finally become superable - due to modern optical (e.g. digital microscopy) and material scientific technologies (e.g. portable X-ray fluorescence analysis). Thus, our archaeological and cultural research is going to employ present-day analytical equipment in order to extract as much raw information from the objects as is currently feasible. The entire inventory of Late Roman engraved glass with human representations will be addressed in order to arrive at substantiated conclusions regarding workshop groups, artistic practice (style, iconography), inscriptions, meaning and functions of the glasses.