Hellenistic mosaic glass vessels in Bohemia and Moravia

Natalie Venclová; Václav Hulínský; Šárka Jonášová; Jaroslav Frána; Marek Fikrle; Tomáš Vaculovič

doi:10.35686/AR.2015.11

Authors

Natalie Venclová Institute of Archaeology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Letenská 4, CZ-11801 Praha 1
Václav Hulínský Department of Glass and Ceramics, Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague, Technická 5, CZ-16628 Praha 6
Šárka Jonášová Institute of Geology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Rozvojová 135/269, CZ-16500 Praha 6
Jaroslav Frána Nuclear Physics Institute, The Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-25068 Řež u Prahy
Marek Fikrle Nuclear Physics Institute, The Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-25068 Řež u Prahy
Tomáš Vaculovič Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno, Kamenice 5, CZ-62500 Brno

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35686/AR.2015.11

Keywords:

mosaic glass vessels, Late La Tène period, Mediterranean imports, archaeometry

Abstract

Imported artefacts from the Late La Tène period also include mosaic glass vessels produced using millefiori, reticella and ribbon mosaic glass techniques. The artefacts are part of the assemblages from the oppida of Stradonice and Staré Hradisko and from the Jičina-Požaha hillfort of the Púchov culture. Their origin can be traced to a Hellenistic workshop(s) in the eastern Mediterranean that was probably in operation in the second and first centuries BC. According to their chemical composition determined by means of SEM-EDS, NAA and LA-ICP-MS, the chemical type of glass of the mosaic vessels is the same as the glass used to make La Tène ring ornaments – soda-lime natron glass.