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重要组成部分（在这种情况下：3世纪晚期至5世纪）。其中有一个精致的分配与世俗，神话或基督教性质的人类代表，主要是在意大利和莱茵兰制造。即使在今天，研究人员仍在推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。目前只有大约150件藏品--其中一些被完整地保存下来，另一些则是碎片--分散在欧洲和美国的博物馆和收藏品中。由于在试图记录和复制高度精致的玻璃中的这些雕刻时遇到了巨大的技术困难，它们从未被汇编成一个类别进行研究。由于现代光学（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），这些障碍最终变得可以克服。因此，我们的考古学和文化研究将使用现代的分析设备，以便尽可能多地从物体中提取原始信息。整个库存的晚罗马雕刻玻璃与人类的表现将得到解决，以达到有关车间组，艺术实践（风格，图像），铭文，意义和功能的玻璃证实的结论。

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.