Historians May Have Been Wrong About This Ancient Roman Vase for Centuries
George Dvorsky
Thursday 3:15pmFiled to: Ancient rome
New research shows that the British Museum’s most famous artifact—the Portland Vase—was manufactured by a different technique than the one traditionally assumed by historians and archaeologists.
For centuries, experts in antiquities have said that the Portland Vase, along with other Roman cameo glass artifacts, were manufactured by the ancient Romans using a blown glass technique. Australian National University scientist and expert glassmaker Richard Whiteley is now challenging this longheld assumption, arguing that many cameo glass pieces were built with a cold-processing technique now known as “pate de verre.”
https://gizmodo.com/historians-may-have-been-wrong-about-this-ancient-roman-1819882154
