The diffusion of light by translucent media in antiquity: à propos two alabaster window-pane fragments from ed-Dur (United Arab Emirates)

• Autores: D. T. Potts
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 70, Nº 267, 1996, págs. 182-188
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • From a University of Copenhagen excavation in the United Arab Emirates come two fragments of sheet alabaster, from a large private house dated to the 1st century AD. They prompt consideration of alabaster's use for windows and of provision for natural lighting in the ancient buildings of the broad region, using ethnohistoric observations, medieval literary sources and ancient epigraphic evidence.