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A baraita is brought in our Gemara that describes a Talmudic-age traffic accident: if people carrying clay or glass vessels were walking one after another and the one walking in front trips and falls, and if the one who is second in line falls over the first person and the third person trips over the second, then the one who is first will be responsible for damages incurred by the second, the second one will be responsible for the damages incurred by the third, and so forth. If, however, the first person caused them all to fall, then he will be responsible for all damage.
With regard to potters and glaziers who were walking one after the other, and the first stumbled and fell, and the second stumbled over the first, sustaining damage, and the third stumbled over the second, also falling and sustaining damage, in this case, the firstperson is liable to pay for the damage of the second, and the second is liable to pay for the damage of the third.
We explore the archeology of glass making in Palestine in the late Antique period.