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Glass Finds as an Indicator of Wealth
and Prestige in Osor

Irena Lazar 2025
Invited Lecture
November

Abstract In the 2nd and 1st centuries BCE, the Hellenistic states of the
Mediterranean were conquered and incorporated into the Roman empire
as provinces. This brought cultural and social influences, as well as intense 4–5
development and many innovations in various crafts, including glassmak-
ing. Glassworking developed in the Roman state based on knowledge from
the Hellenistic centres and provided the impetus for the creation and de- Koper,
velopment of an independent Roman glass industry, which flourished from
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the Augustan era until the end of the Roman Empire. No period better illus-
trates the remarkable diversity of technological practices than the Augustan
period. Glass finds from archaeological contexts of this period show great Spotlight
variety and range in form, colour, decoration, and production techniques.
Monochrome transparent glass vessels, made in moulds, and later also de-
colourised vessels, were increasingly produced. Imports of these products
into newly created cities along the Adriatic reflect the economic strength Scientific
of the population. The presence of glass objects made using various glass-
making techniques, as evident in the material from Osor, suggests that the
settlement had a wide trade network and a population with corresponding the
economic power at that time. Most early glass vessels were imported from in
the newly established glass workshops of central Italy, but individual pieces
may also have originated from workshops in the Eastern Mediterranean. Osor

Keywords Romanglass,mould-madeglass,mould-blownglass,decolourised
glass, painted glass

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