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Dévai Kata - Gelencsér Ákos: Római kori lakóépület és üvegműhely Brigetióból
Római kori lakóépület és üvegműhely Brigetióból THE SECONDARY GLASS WORKSHOP IN CIVIL TOWN OF BRIGETIO KATA DÉVAI-ÁKOS GELENCSÉR In 2006, remains of a Roman glass workshop came to light from a five-period house in the civil town of Brigetio, which is the second known workshop from Hungary beside Intercisa, although there are several artefacts indicating glassworking activity from Aquincum, Brigetio, and possibly from Arrabona. Remains of two furnaces from the 3rd century have been found in a backyard of „striphouse”, unfortunately both of them in damaged condition. One of them was oval shape, likely was used for melting, the other one was divided into two parts: a circular chamber, and a square area for cooling. It is possible that these two are one ovalshaped melting furnace with attched lehr The walls of the furnaces were made of clay, but no bricks were discovered. Between the two small sized (D=6o- 100cm) furnaces there is almost no distance at all. Four debris pits were also excavated, full of raw glass (more than 10 kg), fragments of glass vessels, more than too defective glass beads, cilindrical moils, trails of glass, thin rods, and molten glass drops. The raw glass is dark green and it had not been melted homogenically. This glass was smashed into splintess and the beads were made of these. A marble block was discovered in one of debris pits. It was made for modelling the beads and vessels, and cooling down their surface, which is indicated by a burnt splash on the top of the block. A crooked tool should also be mentioned. It was made of bronze and was applied for decorating the beads. Toolmarks can be seen on several glass drops. Most of the beads are cilindrical, convex cilindrical, round, long biconical, rod shaped, opaque, and dark green or black. Some pieces are cilindrical with hexagonal section, there are short ones with square section and diamond shaped facets and there is a gold-in-glass bead. A few beads are translucent, light green. All except one were worsen. Many of the beads are decorated with opaque white, yellow trail (frequently feather design), or red, white yellow fleck, although there are several one-colour beads. The fragments of colourless cylindrical beaker with flower and bird decoration and a chequer-design (so called snake-thread glass), and the fragment of vessels with oval facets decoration proved that this production was active in the first half of the 3rd century. Translated by Kata Dévai 93
