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‘Atiqot 89 (2017)
ISBN 2948-040X
The Glass Finds from the Byzantine Monastery in Nahal Qidron, Jerusalem
(pp. 101–106)
Tamar Winter
Keywords: Byzantine period, Umayyad period, monastery, Christianity, glass
The glass finds from the monastery in Nahal Qidron are associated with the late Byzantine–early Umayyad periods, particularly the sixth–seventh centuries CE. They resemble specimens in contemporary glass assemblages from the
Jerusalem area, many of them originating in Christian ecclesiastical complexes. The assemblage comprises some 170 small glass fragments, about 110 of which belong to windowpanes. Most of the vessels are free blown, plain and made of translucent glass, mostly colorless, blue, greenish blue and green.