This is from our internal ‘Collections Snapshot’ by Katherine:
Sometimes objects which don’t make the best photographs are really exciting. This Roman glass vessel is around 2000 years old, made of really thin and delicate glass and yet is virtually complete. It’s unusually large for this type of vessel, and we’re not sure what it was used for – perhaps for cosmetics, or oil, or even offerings. After being placed into a grave, it was not disturbed until the railway station was built at the end of the 19th century.
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It’s great the way these objects have the power to amaze. Today I showed an archaeologist from the Council for British Archaeology around the stores. When I took this out of the box for her to see and hold, her jaw dropped; I do wish other people could have seen her expression!
Katherine October 22nd, 2007 at 4:47 pm