Glass During the Roman Period
摘要
While the Mediterranean was largely dominated by Egyptian rule during the early period of glass outlined in the previous chapter, this changed in 525 BCE, when Egypt came under control of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia. By the end of the sixth-century BCE, the Achaemenid Empire dominated not only the Mediterranean, but also most of the known world [1]. In addition to Egypt, this included Macedonia, Thrace, and the western Black Sea coast, Anatolia, the Phoenician lands, the Levant, and other basin regions of the Mediterranean (Fig. 4.1).