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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ownedbybear, post: 4408700, member: 29&quot;]It isn&#039;t an amphora, those have pointed ends. Both of those pieces are way too thick walled for Roman glass vessels, as aj rightly says. </p><p><br /></p><p>Glass was blown by the Romans, and they even did mould blown pieces. As to carved cameo glass, they made sublime things. See the Portland vase. A recent project to make a true copy ran into huge issues trying to copy it. </p><p><br /></p><p>These people are amazing about researching and reproducing it: <a href="http://www.theglassmakers.co.uk/archiveromanglassmakers/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theglassmakers.co.uk/archiveromanglassmakers/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theglassmakers.co.uk/archiveromanglassmakers/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This image, from their website, shows a glory hole which isn&#039;t much different from quite recent ones.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.theglassmakers.co.uk/archiveromanglassmakers/index/glasshouse2010.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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