ANTONARAS, Anastasios

JGS 49

The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, 2007, p. 47-56

Museum of Byzantine Culture (Philippi)

fouilles excavations

[550, 625]

bol bowl bouteille bottle flacon flask lampe lamp verre à boire drinking glass vitre window glass

soufflé dans un moule mould-blown

• Glass objets found in the Museum Basilica at Philippi - some characteristics:

– about 1 400 fragments of glass: windowpanes (74.46 %), vessels (23.56 %), glassworking remains (1.98 %).

– windowpanes (fig. 2):
- from the trilobate window of the apse of the Holy Bema (second quarter of the 6th century),
- made from a cylinder,
- assembled with lead strips (fig. 3).

– vessels:
- lamps (91.58 % of vessels):
fragments of stemmed lamps (fig. 4 and 5.1),
fragments of goblet-shaped lamps, some with handles (fig. 5.2a-2b; fig. 6) [some of them were drinking glasses ?],
fragments of hemispherical bowls, one with handles (fig. 5.3a-3b);
- others:
flasks (fig. 5.4a-4b ; fig. 8),
toilet bottles (fig. 5.5a-5b).

– glassworking remains:
- lumps of raw glass,
- fragments of glass ‘cake’ for the cutting of mosaic terrerae.

bloc de verre brut lump of raw glass galette de verre glass cake

lieux de pratiques religieuses
places of religious practices   église
church

Grèce Greece

Philippi

consommation production