[INDOLOGY] glass in ancient India

[Kathleen Longwaters]

Naqvi in A Study of Buddhist Medicine and Surgery in Gandhara 2011: 46 also mentions glass tiles found at the Dharmarajika Stupa, Taxila. He presumes they are imported.

Kathleen Longwaters

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> On Jul 7, 2016, at 9:43 AM, John Huntington <john.darumadera at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In the northern Indic regions of what is now Pakistan and Afghanistan, there was a substantial number of glass objects found at Begram and some blue glass blocks (paving tiles?) around the stupa at Butkara I in Swat.  The Begram material is probably imported but the big blocks of blue glass at Butkara I may have been produced locally.
> 
> The Begram material is published in the J. Hackin: Memoires de la Delegation Archeologique Francaise en Afghanistan, Recherches Arceologiques a Begram Chantier No. 2  (1937), Text and Planches (2 vols)  and Nouvelles Recherches Archeologiques a Begram (ancienne Kapici) (1939-1940) Text and Planches (2 books).
> 
> I am not sure of the blue glass from Butkara I was ever published.
> 
> John C. Huntington
> 
>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Dagmar Wujastyk <d.wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Many thanks for these very helpful pointers!
>> Dagmar
>> 
>>> On 7 July 2016 at 16:07, Dan Lusthaus <prajnapti at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> See https://www.britishmuseum.org/PDF/Mairs.pdf
>>> 
>>> From the British Museum, by Rachel Mairs, "Glassware from Roman Egypt at Begram (Afghanistan) and the Red Sea trade”. Includes large bibliography.
>>> 
>>> Dan
>> 
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