Unidentified glass vessel
Dear coleagues,
This fragment from a glass vessel is bugging me for some time now, as I am not able to identify it with any shape. Based on its context (=a monumental cist tomb from Macedonia, Greece) we are looking at a late 4th-century BC date. The different angles offered here are exactly because of the fact that I do not know exactly how to place it. The recession that seems to form on one side points a ‘ceramically-trained’ mind towards a fish-plate, but to my knowledge the shape is not replicated in glass. Does anything come to mind?
Hi Alexandros ! I am not a specialist of glass at all, but this fragment looks very thin for a vessel produced with a mold like most of the Hellenistic glass recipient and moreover for a plate. I am wondering if the “recession” could be the lower part of a neck, but then this vessel would be a blown glass… Is the context absolutey closed and without any other later intrusions ? Best regards ! Guy
Guy, thank you very much for your thoughts. I have another working theory, but as I realized after I published my post, anyone replying to a post is not able to add a photo. My current idea is that this piece of glass could derive from a glass cup, similar to one (of about the same date), found in a tomb in Lete. Unfortunately, I cannot add a photo to show you what I mean.
Dear Alexandros, the idea about the glass cup, similar to the one from Lete, is intriguing, but the curve of the wall makes me think that it might not be right. I would suggest, instead, that the fragment belongs to a lid. Good luck! Zoi