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The Small Glass Boat from Salona

A small glass boat was found among other items in stone urn 73 from incineration grave 348 in Salona’s Western Necropolis, in Sector III, west of the city walls in the Houston test trench. This find is held in the Archaeological Museum in Split together with the remaining items from the Western Necropolis. The boat is made of moulded, cut, sanded and polished semi-transparent green glass, with smooth walls, oblong oval hull. The tip of the bowsprit is heart-shaped, while the stern curves high above the keel (lng. 15.43 cm, wid. 4.96 cm, ht. of stern 4 cm).Given the finds of coins, olla-form balsamaria, and tubular balsamaria with equal body and neck lengths, we maintain that the layer, like the grave, should be dated to the Tiberian-Claudian era at the earliest, and with regard to the presence of the remaining first-century finds, the grave cannot be younger than the first century AD. Given the analogous example and the find context, we may conclude that the Salona boat is an Italic product of the second quarter or mid- first century AD and possibly served as a container for dice and counters.

Glass boat; Salona

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