#roman glassware

[ancientcharm]

Roman Glass Cups (3rd Century AD)

[thesilicontribesman]

Roman Glass Phials, The Yorkshire Museum, York, Yorkshire

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Circus cup decorated with flowers and birds

Place of origin: Varpelev, Denmark

Period: Roman

[blueiskewl]

Roman Glassware Recovered From 2,000-Year-Old Shipwreck

Glassware in perfect condition was recovered from the wreckage of a 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck lying 1,148 feet below the ocean's surface.

The shipwreck of the Capo Corso 2 was discovered in the area between the French peninsula of Cap Corse and the Island of Capraia in Italy. An excavation of the wreck took place in early July, when archaeologists found an abundance of ancient glassware, according to a press release from Italy's National Superintendency for Underwater Cultural Heritage, which conducted the mission alongside France's Department of Archaeological Research.

Archaeologists discovered that the cargo of this ancient ship consisted almost entirely of glass. Some of it was in blocks, while others were in the form of tableware artifacts.

Glass bottles, platies, cups, bowls, and two bronze basins were found. An amphora-a type of container created in the Bronze Age-was also discovered aboard the ship.

The cargo was "perfectly preserved," according to the press release. The finds will be taken to the laboratory of the National Superintendence in Taranto, Italy for closer inspections.

It is believed the ship sailed from the end of the 1st century to the beginning of the 2nd century AD, although this is not confirmed. A closer look at artifacts found aboard will hopefully give researchers a more definitive date, and hold clues into where it came from.

So far, archaeologists believe this ship must have sailed from the Middle East-from either Lebanon or Syria- considering the amphorae and glass on board. They also estimate it was heading towards Province, in France.

This is the second known Roman shipwreck in this region that appeared to be carrying an abundance of glass.

The Department of Archaeological Research in Drassm, France, used a research vessel called the Alfred Merlin to reach the wreck. The robot can reach 8202.0997 feet below the surface of the ocean and takes high resolution video of its surroundings. Analysis of this ship and its cargo will give researchers new insight into the Mediterranean trade during this period.

But the mission was not just to recover the ship's artifacts, but to assess the biological state of the wreck. Shipwrecks often become artificial reefs for sea life over a period of time. The structures often create thriving ecosystems, as marine organisms attach themselves to their surface.

Assessing the biological colonization of the wreck will determine how well the artifacts can be recovered and conserved.

By Robyn White.

[romegreeceart]

Roman glassware

* Romano-Germanic Museum, Cologne

* coloured glass, hence 3rd or 4th century CE.

* Local workmanship IIRC

Cologne, November 2017

[thatshowthingstarted]

Glass snake-thread flask shaped like a mouse,

Roman, 3rd century CE

Translucent cobalt blue, with same color added head, ears, eyes, feet, and snake-thread decoration. Rounded and thickened rim; funnel-shaped, elongated neck with tooling marks around base; misshapen piriform body, with separate large blob of glass applied to rounded bottom of body.

The neck has been turned upwards to appear like the mouse’s tail; added to the body of the vessel to create the animal are four separate tooled trails for the feet and for the head a large blob that has been drawn out to make a pointed nose; ears and eyes have also been added to the head; the body is further decorated with snake-thread trails, all flattened and notched, in the form of two long-necked, thin-legged birds, one on the animal’s back, the other on his belly between his feet, interspersed with foliage comprising tendrils and ivy leaves; a plain spiral trail is wound twice around the lower part of the neck.

6.3 x 5.1 x 14.6 x 2.7cm

Courtesy: MET Museum

[didoofcarthage]

Glass bottle with handles

Roman, 1st century A.D.

Saint Louis Art Museum

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[homerstroystory]

grave goods, including painted beads, gold jewelry, ceramics, and the remains of a glass vessel among other items, excavated at Dion (c. Hellenistic and Roman periods; Dion-Olympos, Greece)

On display at the Archaeological Museum of Dion

[ddiomedes]

[ineffable-inspirations]

This brightly paint-enamelled beaker, with people harvesting dates, was created in Roman Egypt and discovered at Begram in Afghanistan.1st-2nd centuries CE

[ancientcharm]

"Cage cup", or a diatretum – a luxury late Roman glass vessel, found from roughly the 4th century. Today, some 60 fragmentary diatreta are known today, 19 of which are almost complete. This piece, was found in 1950 in the sarcophagus in Niederemmel, near Trier, Germany.  Diatreta consist of an inner beaker and an outer cage that stands out from the body of the cup, to which it is attached by short stems. This exemplar is part of the Trier Landesmuseum permanent collection. The manufacturing technique must have been laborious, but it's still a mystery: either the inner beaker and the cage were made separately and heat-soldered, or the whole assembly was chiselled from a single block of glass. The majority of finds of diatreta are from Roman sites along the Rhine, suggesting that they were produced in the area, perhaps at Trier. This was the largest city of Roman Germany and the main residence of Constantine I for many years, coinciding with the period when the cups seem to have been made. Photos and text by Time Travel Rome

[thesilicontribesman]

Roman Glassware Photoset 2, Hull and East Riding Museum, Hull, Yorkshire

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Goblet.

Place of origin: Roman Empire, Eastern Mediterranean

Date: A.D. 5th-6th century

[wolfman-al]

Yesterday I was in Aschaffenburg visiting the Pompeianum and the castle.

Roman perfume bottles made from glass. I love how some of them look almost like art nouveau designs.

[romegreeceart]

Roman glassware

Egypt, 30 BCE-395 CE

Egyptian Museum, Turin

Turin, June 2023