McClellan, Murray C.

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1. Drawing illustrating the core-form method. From Labino, 1966, 125, courtesy of the Journal of Glass Studies. Ancient Glass Perfume Vases: The Collection of the Museum of Art and Archaeology From about 1500 S.c. until the invention of glass blowing not long before the time of Christ, a series of small, brightly colored vessels, intended as containers for precious perfumed oils, was produced at a number of centers in the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean region. These vessels were made by the technique known as "core-forming." This laborious process involved taking a lump of hot glass from a furnace with a metal rod, and wrapping it around a core made of clay and sand, often with an organic binder, which was attached to the end of a second metal rod (Fig. 1). I The technique is thought to have been invented in Mesopotamia, not long before the middle of the second millennium S.c. It was soon adopted in Egypt, where it flourished in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties (ca. 1500-1100 B.C.). 34 IIlt( 1.'\/1 (II{ II{t)" Rtll) 1 'j ~ 111<'''10] IH I{\II{ ~ Btl(,\11{ about the authors Ronald M. Bernier, a specialist in the arts of the Himalayan region, is professor of art history and chair of the Asian studies program at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He is the author of Temples of Nepal; The Nepalese Pagoda: Origins and Style; and Temple Arts of Kerala. He regularly lectures for American Museum of Natural History study tours in Asia and is currently preparing a video series on Asian arts for public television. Richard Daniel De Puma teaches classical archaeology at the Universi-ty of Iowa's School of Art and Art History. He is a research associate of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, and a member of the Advisory Board for the American Journal of Archaeology. He holds a BA from Swarthmore College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. His recent publications include Etruscan Tomb Groups and the Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum-u.S.A. 1. Richard C. Jensen received a B.A. from the University of Arizona, and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. He has taught classics at the University of Arizona since 1961. Among Dr. Jensen's many publications are two articles on Kourion, in Cyprus, a site familiar to Muse readers. Murray C. McClellan received a B.A. in Greek from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in classical archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation was titled "Core-Formed Glass from Dated Contexts." He has been the coordinator of the outreach lecture program at the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania and is now Fulbright fellow in Cyprus. Dr. McClellan is an active field archaeologist, having excavated in Israel, Jordan, Libya, Greece, Cyprus, and Egypt. A former secretary of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Dr. McClellan is now actively working on several archaeologi-cal projects in Cyprus and is the field director of the University Museum's excavations in Marsa Matruh , Egypt. 69 

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