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This book is one half of the report which presents the vessel glass and small finds found during the excavations in Insula VI.1, Pompeii between 1995 and 2006. The other half is available via the Archaeological Data Service (doi: 10.5284/1039937). The insula lies by the Porta Ercolana and, at the time of the eruption, was occupied by a range of different property types. The aim of the excavations was to uncover the development of the insula prior to the destruction of the town in AD 79. A very large body of material ranging in date from the second century BC to the final years of Pompeii’s existence was recovered. It was not possible to study the ironwork, but the report presents more than 5,000 items in a large range of other materials. An introductory chapter describes the insula, the original excavations in the eighteenth century and the modern ones in 1995 to 2006, the background to studying this sort of material from Pompeii, and the approach taken to analysing this assemblage. The next nine chapters describe the material according to broad functional categories. In these chapters there is a consideration of the detailed typologies of the objects and their dating, and explorat

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H.E.M. Cool;

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