Naslov
The Traces of the Glassmakers in the Roman Province of Dalamatia

Autori
Buljević, Zrinka

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
Conference of the ICOM Glass Committee 2004 in Slovenia

Mjesto i datum
Celje, Slovenija, 11.10.2004. - 14.10.2004

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Dalmatia; glassblower; glassmaker

Sažetak
In the last decade in Dalmatia the fragments of three cups attributed to the famous 1st century glass blowers Ennion and Aristeas were found. Dalmatian Ennion’ s cups come from the military camp in Tilurium (Gardun near Trilj) and from the Augusteum in Narona (Vid). The Naronitan vessel is the third or forth such vessel found on the route to Tremithus in Cyprus – Narona – Cavárzere near Adria – possibly Tarragona. Similar fragments are known from Mogador in Morocco as well as aforementioned fragment from Gardun in Croatia which is too small to be attributed to a certain of Ennion’ s cups with one or two handles. Aristeas, Ennion's follower, as a Cypriote signed the Naronitan cup from Augusteum and the cup in the Constable-Maxwell collection, and without the toponymic mark the cup in olivegreen glass in the Strada Collection, Pavia. The inscriptions on the flat horizontal tongues of two handles of scyphus from the Augusteum in Narona, are worn and illegible so we don’ t know who of Sidonians signed it in the 1st century AD. The Naronitan glass cameo of Livia with its youthful appearance and hairstyle with nodus certainly originated in Rome during the period of Tiberius, and is possibly a work of one of Dioskourides’ sons: Eutyches, Hyllos and Herophilos. Only Salona in Dalmatia is proved to be a glass working centre not only by the remains of glass furnace but with certain epigraphical evidences - a sarcophagus fragment with the inscription of a glassmaker Paschasius or Pascasius and a marble mould for glass bottles with the inscription of a glassmaker Miscenius Ampliatus. Depictions of closed glass furnaces, and glassblowing scenes are preserved on two clay lamps from 3rd quarter of 1st century AD, consistent with the spread of glassblowing technique, one from Prati di Monestirolo (Ferrara region, Italy) and another from Asseria (Dalmatia). On the lamp from Asseria the names of two depicted glassblowers, freedmen are inscribed: [Tre]llus i Athenio, his assistant whose name suggests Athenian origin, his or his ancestor. If the personal names on the bottoms of unguentaria are the names of glassmakers, on the teritory of Roman Dalmatia from Argyruntum we know about Rufinius and A(ntonius) Volumnius Ianuarius ; let us mention here the abbreviation QDE/LPF from the bottom of a unguentarium from Iader of which letters in the first line could be solved with the inscription from the bottom of a square bottle Almese (Torino): Q. DANI EVHELPISTI. On the bottoms of Dalmatian square bottles from Iader, Argyruntum, Asseria and Volcera we read the name of L. Aemilius Blasius. On the bottoms of two bottles from Zaton is the name of C. Salvius Gratus. Cn. Pompeius Cassianus is the name that is confirmed on the glass bottom from Iader. If they are glass makers their bottles are imported in Dalmatia from north Italy ; this with remark that there is a hypothesis about Blasius’ and Pompeius’ Dalmatian branch glass shop. of the 2nd part of the 1st – 3rd century AD.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arheologija

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