In this volume, Emily Byrne Curtis looks at the important role that glass imported from China played in Tibetan culture. And Beatrice Scheer Smith details how a study of lead content revealed previously unknown information about New England Pomona glass. This volume also features studies of glass from the late Hellenistic and Byzantine periods. In addition, important recent acquisitions, with pictures, are listed. Table of Contents and Abstracts Remarks on a Glass Object from Khârga Oasis: A New Class of Cast Glass Plates (In Italian) p. 33 Bruno Massabò Glass Dessert Table Settings in Venice in the 18th Century (In Italian) p. 159 Paolo Zecchin The Late Hellenistic Glass Industry in Syro-Palestine: A Reappraisal p. 11 Ruth E. Jackson-Tal Some Dubious Stylites on Early Byzantine Glassware p. 39 David Woods New Evidence of the Production of Raw Glass at Late Byzantine Apollonia-Arsuf, Israel p. 51 Oren Tal, Ruth E. Jackson-Tal, and Ian C. Freestone Stained Glass from Saint-Jean-des-Vignes (Soissons) and Comparisons with Glass from Other Medieval Sites p. 115 Robert H. Brill and Patricia Pongracz Glass from Qal?at Sem?an (Northern Syria): The Reworking of Glass during the Transition from Roman to Islamic Compositions p. 67 Odile Dussart, Bruce Velde, Pierre-Marie Blanc, and Jean-Pierre Sodini Silver-Stained Windows at Carolingian Zalavár, Mosaburg (Southwestern Hungary) p. 85 Béla Miklós Sz?ke, Karl Hans Wedepohl, and Andreas Kronz Silver Stain on Medieval Window Glass Excavated in the Venetian Lagoon p. 105 Francesca Vaghi, Marco Verità, and Sandro Zecchin Abstracts p. 236 Glass and Glassmaking in Byzantine Italy: The Testimony of ?abbe?ay Donnolo p. 109 Giancarlo Lacerenza and David Whitehouse Glass from China for the Land above the Clouds p. 145 Emily Byrne Curtis New England Pomona (1885?1887): Lead Analysis as a Study Tool p. 173 Beatrice Scheer Smith Contributors p. 187 Notes p. 189 Recent Important Acquisitions p. 213 Note to Authors and Readers p. 228 Museum Publications p. 229