Ritter, Markus

[ 1 ] - ‘Solomon’s Bottle’: a Glass Bottle in Tehran and Abbasid Glass Floors in Mesopotamia and the Levant

The article discusses a scarcely known medium of architectural decoration in Abbasid palaces, transparent glass tiles, and reports on the discovery of the largest known assemblage of fragments of such tiles in Tehran, in a bottle of the Glassware and Ceramics Museum of Iran.  The first part deals with the visual and material aspects of the use of transparent glass tiles, based on archaeologica...