D B Harden
Biographic Data
| ID | 1045304 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D B Harden |
| GIVEN NAMES | D B |
| FAMILY NAME | Harden |
| SIGNATURE | HARDEN D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Museum of the History of Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1927 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Society for Medieval Archaeology
The Officers of the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Royal Archaeological Institute, the British Archaeological Association, the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies and the Prehistoric Society were approached and they one and all expressed approval of the plan and a welcome for the venture. ‘Tree-ring analysis as an aid to medieval studies,’ written jointly by a meteorologist and an archaeologist. The first Annual Spring Conference of…
Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960â1975 by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
celebrated fifteenth-century bhakti (devotional ) poet from Benares; and samples from a growing body of uncollected translations of modern and contemporary poetry, mostly Hindi but also Bengali and Gujarati. Amit Chaudhuri’s perceptive introduction provides the level of in-depth analysis that Mehrotra’s poetry clearly deserves. Graziano Krätli North Haven, Connecticut William Stafford. Ask Me: One Hundred Essential Poems. Kim Stafford, ed. Minnea…
Hope in New Beginnings
8 WLT JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 2015 new books Hope in New Beginnings by Danielle Harden For most, the new year often brings nostalgic reflection, a wish for progress, or those dreaded (and regularly broken) resolutions. If you need inspiration, the characters in these new books have survived difficult circumstances and offer deep insights into hope, regret, survival, and, ultimately, starting over. notebook Guys Like Me Dominique Fabre Howard Curtis, tr…
Atlantis Books
80 WLT JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 2015 Outpost NESTLED INTO A CLIFF on an island in the south of Greece is Atlantis Books, a quaint little bookshop in the picturesque town of Oia. The story of how Atlantis came to be taps into collective fantasies of leaving behind humdrum ordinary life to live out a spontaneous adventure, abandoning any hesitations that deter most of us from satisfying our innermost desires. The idea began when young friends and soonto -…
An Early Saxon Settlement within the Romano-British Small Town at Heybridge, Essex
FIVE GRUBENHAUSER and a probable ground level building sited within the Romano-British small town at Heybridge are described. The associated Saxon pottery suggests that the settlement belongs to the first half of the 5th century, and there is evidence that late Romano-British pottery was in contemporary use. It is suggested that the Saxon settlers were involved either economically or militarily in the life of the late Roman town. The significance…
Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum, IV. Glass
Anglo-Saxon and Later Medieval Glass in Britain: Some Recent Developments
THIS PAPER was delivered as the presidential address at the annual general meeting of the Society in 1977
Ancient Glass, III: Post-Roman
Ancient Glass, II: Roman
A brief summary of the history of glassmaking up to the later lst century B. C. is given. Slight archaeological evidence suggests that glass-blowing, a revolutionary technique, originated in Syria, perhaps c. 50 B.C., whence it spread first to northern Italy where Syrians founded factories, and thence rapidly to most north-western provinces. Alexandrian-type cast vessels probably continued in production in Campania and Rome uutil mid-1st century …
Ancient Glass, I: Pre-Roman
VII.— The Rothschild Lycurgus Cup
Lord Rothschild's family has possessed, since the middle of the nineteenth century, one of the most interesting and important extant Roman cut glasses–the famous glass cup with metal mounts, the glass portion of which bears in open-work relief-cutting an elaborate rendering of the scene of the death of Lycurgus, mythical king of the Edoni, at the hands of the Dionysiac rout (pis. LIXLXIV; figs. 1-2). It is not known exactly when the vase was acqu…
Three Post-Roman finds from the Temple Well at Pagans Hill, Somerset
Vasa Murrina again
A reassessment of the problem of Vasa Murrina based upon a study of a fluorspar vase in A. Loewental's possession was recently published in this Journal (XXXIX, 1949, 31 ff.) by Loewental and myself. The late C. E. N. Bromehead very kindly added a ‘Mineralogical Note’, afterwards elaborated in Antiquity (XXVI, 1952, 65 ff.), supporting his view that the true Murrines were fluorspar. But even by 1952 Bromehead was unable to cite any actual fluorsp…
A glass bowl of Dark Age date and some medieval grave-finds from Shaftesbury Abbey
Towards the end of 1951 the Countess of Shaftesbury presented to the Dean and Chapter of Winchester a brass-bound wooden casket of nineteenth-century neo-Gothic design which contained a glass bowl and several other ancient objects. The casket and its contents had only recently come into Lady Shaftesbury's own possession, but they had been in the possession of the Grosvenor family (to which she belongs) for some time before that
Excavations in the broch and hill-fort of Torwood-Lee, Selkirkshire, 1950
A report on the excavation of the broch and hill fort at Torwoodlee. A hut contemporary to the fort and a burial cist were also discovered on the site during the investigation. The fort and hut were dated to the Early Iron Age but the excavators concluded that he broch and cist were later constructions. The report concludes with catalogues of the sherds of Roman pottery found during the excavations in 1891 and 1950
Seventeenth-century lining papers
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Glass beaker from Colchester Castle
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Tomb-Groups of Glass of Roman Date from Syria and Palestine
Though much Roman glass from Palestine and Syria exists in museums and collections, there are very few instances in which we know anything about the circumstances of its finding, and in still fewer instances are groups from the same tomb still preserved together. In recent years some tomb-groups of the early and later Roman period have been published in the Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine, and I myself was recently enabled…
Vasa Murrina
Vasa murrina are a type of costly vessel mentioned by various ancient authors of the last century B.C. and later. The best account of them is given by the elder Pliny, who had ample opportunity of seeing and using these vessels, though his description of them is difficult to reconcile with any known product, natural or artificial, of the ancient or modern world. References in other authorities, of whom the earliest is Propertius, add little to th…
The brooch from West Stow, Suffolk
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The Phoenicians on the West Coast of Africa
The Phoenicians on the West Coast of Africa
In the present state of our knowledge of the true extent of the Phoenician accomplishment in their homelands in the Mediterranean, it may seem foolhardy to try to evaluate their achievements in West Africa, or indeed anywhere else on the periphery of their sphere of influence. The attempt has, however, been made in the past, nearly always from the purely historical aspect, and my excuse for essaying it once again is that the time seems to have co…
Studies in Third Millennium History
Roman Window-Panes from Jerash, and Later Parallels
The Pottery from the Precinct of Tanit at Salammbo, Carthage
The discovery of the Precinct of Tanit at Carthage in 1921 and its subsequent excavation during the following years up to 1925 have already been described in reports published by the excavators. But these reports were short, and neither they nor an equally short paper by the present author published in 1927 can be said to have done justice to the well-stratified series of cinerary urns which the Precinct contained. These, of which two thousand or…
Ancient Glass, II: Roman
A brief summary of the history of glassmaking up to the later lst century B. C. is given. Slight archaeological evidence suggests that glass-blowing, a revolutionary technique, originated in Syria, perhaps c. 50 B.C., whence it spread first to northern Italy where Syrians founded factories, and thence rapidly to most north-western provinces. Alexandrian-type cast vessels probably continued in production in Campania and Rome uutil mid-1st century …
Ancient Glass, I: Pre-Roman
Excavations in the broch and hill-fort of Torwood-Lee, Selkirkshire, 1950
A report on the excavation of the broch and hill fort at Torwoodlee. A hut contemporary to the fort and a burial cist were also discovered on the site during the investigation. The fort and hut were dated to the Early Iron Age but the excavators concluded that he broch and cist were later constructions. The report concludes with catalogues of the sherds of Roman pottery found during the excavations in 1891 and 1950
Romano-Syrian Glasses with Mould-blown Inscriptions
This paper had its origin in an attempt to elucidate the connexions of three fragmentary mould-blown glasses in the Ashmolean Museum ( infra , pp. 172–3, nos. F i d and e and ii c ) which bear the complimentary motto ΚΑΤΑΧΑΙΡΕ ΚΑΙ ΕΥΦΡΑΙΝΟΥ, ‘Your very good health.’ The first two of these on close examination proved to be so much alike in every detail that they must have come out of the same mould
Excavations at Kish and Barghuthiat 1933
My report on the twelfth season of the Oxford-Field Museum Expedition at Kish is based upon the weekly reports of the Field Director, M. L. Ch. Watelin, supplemented by further study of the objects after their arrival in Oxford. I have been able to make use of Dr. Milne and Professor Margoliouth's report on the coins and of Mr. Harden's study of the pottery. The drawings and letterpress for the pottery are entirely Mr. Harden's work. He had meagr…
Ancient Glass
The circumstances of the first production of glass are shrouded in mystery. The ancient authors give us little or no trustworthy information on the subject. Pliny the Elder, our chief authority, tells us a strange tale which is credible neither from the archaeological nor from the technical standpoint. He says that a party of Phoenician saltpetre-merchants landed by the mouth of the river Belus in Phoenicia. They set about lighting a fire to cook…
An Early Saxon Settlement within the Romano-British Small Town at Heybridge, Essex
FIVE GRUBENHAUSER and a probable ground level building sited within the Romano-British small town at Heybridge are described. The associated Saxon pottery suggests that the settlement belongs to the first half of the 5th century, and there is evidence that late Romano-British pottery was in contemporary use. It is suggested that the Saxon settlers were involved either economically or militarily in the life of the late Roman town. The significance…
Anglo-Saxon and Later Medieval Glass in Britain: Some Recent Developments
THIS PAPER was delivered as the presidential address at the annual general meeting of the Society in 1977
Ancient Glass, III: Post-Roman
Glass beaker from Colchester Castle
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Punic Urns from the Precinct of Tanit at Carthage
Punic Urns from the Precinct of Tanit at Carthage
Early Byzantine and Later Glass Lamps
Early Byzantine and Later Glass Lamps
Ancient Glass
The circumstances of the first production of glass are shrouded in mystery. The ancient authors give us little or no trustworthy information on the subject. Pliny the Elder, our chief authority, tells us a strange tale which is credible neither from the archaeological nor from the technical standpoint. He says that a party of Phoenician saltpetre-merchants landed by the mouth of the river Belus in Phoenicia. They set about lighting a fire to cook…
A Typological Examination of Sumerian Pottery from Jamdat Nasr and Kish
Excavations at Kish and Bar gh uthiat 1933: II. Pottery
Figs, 1 and 2 show a conspectus of the restorable pot-shapes of both plain and glazed ware found in the Sassanian buildings excavated at Kish in 1932-3. Almost all of them come from the SS 7 complex, at an average depth of 2 metres: a few are from SS 6 or SS 8, at a similar depth. They form a group that should prove most valuable for purposes of dating on less well documented sites in Iraq, for it seems most probable that this pottery belongs to …
Excavations at Kish and Barghuthiat 1933
My report on the twelfth season of the Oxford-Field Museum Expedition at Kish is based upon the weekly reports of the Field Director, M. L. Ch. Watelin, supplemented by further study of the objects after their arrival in Oxford. I have been able to make use of Dr. Milne and Professor Margoliouth's report on the coins and of Mr. Harden's study of the pottery. The drawings and letterpress for the pottery are entirely Mr. Harden's work. He had meagr…
Snake-thread Glasses found in the East
Perhaps the most remarkable product of Rhenish glass-furnaces during the Imperial period is the well-known fabric bearing polychrome or monochrome applied decoration. These are the glasses termed by German archaeologists ‘Schlangenfaden’ or ‘snake-thread’ glass. They are of various shapes and were produced in great numbers from the last quarter of the second to the fourth century A.D., probably largely, if not entirely, at Cologne
Romano-Syrian Glasses with Mould-blown Inscriptions
This paper had its origin in an attempt to elucidate the connexions of three fragmentary mould-blown glasses in the Ashmolean Museum ( infra , pp. 172–3, nos. F i d and e and ii c ) which bear the complimentary motto ΚΑΤΑΧΑΙΡΕ ΚΑΙ ΕΥΦΡΑΙΝΟΥ, ‘Your very good health.’ The first two of these on close examination proved to be so much alike in every detail that they must have come out of the same mould
The Pottery from the Precinct of Tanit at Salammbo, Carthage
The discovery of the Precinct of Tanit at Carthage in 1921 and its subsequent excavation during the following years up to 1925 have already been described in reports published by the excavators. But these reports were short, and neither they nor an equally short paper by the present author published in 1927 can be said to have done justice to the well-stratified series of cinerary urns which the Precinct contained. These, of which two thousand or…
Roman Window-Panes from Jerash, and Later Parallels
Studies in Third Millennium History
The Phoenicians on the West Coast of Africa
The Phoenicians on the West Coast of Africa
In the present state of our knowledge of the true extent of the Phoenician accomplishment in their homelands in the Mediterranean, it may seem foolhardy to try to evaluate their achievements in West Africa, or indeed anywhere else on the periphery of their sphere of influence. The attempt has, however, been made in the past, nearly always from the purely historical aspect, and my excuse for essaying it once again is that the time seems to have co…
Tomb-Groups of Glass of Roman Date from Syria and Palestine
Though much Roman glass from Palestine and Syria exists in museums and collections, there are very few instances in which we know anything about the circumstances of its finding, and in still fewer instances are groups from the same tomb still preserved together. In recent years some tomb-groups of the early and later Roman period have been published in the Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities in Palestine, and I myself was recently enabled…
Vasa Murrina
Vasa murrina are a type of costly vessel mentioned by various ancient authors of the last century B.C. and later. The best account of them is given by the elder Pliny, who had ample opportunity of seeing and using these vessels, though his description of them is difficult to reconcile with any known product, natural or artificial, of the ancient or modern world. References in other authorities, of whom the earliest is Propertius, add little to th…
The brooch from West Stow, Suffolk
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Glass beaker from Colchester Castle
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Seventeenth-century lining papers
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Excavations in the broch and hill-fort of Torwood-Lee, Selkirkshire, 1950
A report on the excavation of the broch and hill fort at Torwoodlee. A hut contemporary to the fort and a burial cist were also discovered on the site during the investigation. The fort and hut were dated to the Early Iron Age but the excavators concluded that he broch and cist were later constructions. The report concludes with catalogues of the sherds of Roman pottery found during the excavations in 1891 and 1950
Vasa Murrina again
A reassessment of the problem of Vasa Murrina based upon a study of a fluorspar vase in A. Loewental's possession was recently published in this Journal (XXXIX, 1949, 31 ff.) by Loewental and myself. The late C. E. N. Bromehead very kindly added a ‘Mineralogical Note’, afterwards elaborated in Antiquity (XXVI, 1952, 65 ff.), supporting his view that the true Murrines were fluorspar. But even by 1952 Bromehead was unable to cite any actual fluorsp…
A glass bowl of Dark Age date and some medieval grave-finds from Shaftesbury Abbey
Towards the end of 1951 the Countess of Shaftesbury presented to the Dean and Chapter of Winchester a brass-bound wooden casket of nineteenth-century neo-Gothic design which contained a glass bowl and several other ancient objects. The casket and its contents had only recently come into Lady Shaftesbury's own possession, but they had been in the possession of the Grosvenor family (to which she belongs) for some time before that
Three Post-Roman finds from the Temple Well at Pagans Hill, Somerset
VII.— The Rothschild Lycurgus Cup
Lord Rothschild's family has possessed, since the middle of the nineteenth century, one of the most interesting and important extant Roman cut glasses–the famous glass cup with metal mounts, the glass portion of which bears in open-work relief-cutting an elaborate rendering of the scene of the death of Lycurgus, mythical king of the Edoni, at the hands of the Dionysiac rout (pis. LIXLXIV; figs. 1-2). It is not known exactly when the vase was acqu…
Ancient Glass, I: Pre-Roman
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