Budapest Régiségei 37. (2003)

Gyürky Katalin, H.: A budapesti I. Fortuna u. 18. számú lakóház régészeti kutatásából származó üvegleletek 13-28

H. GYÜRKY KATALIN f it was in Visegrád that a similar shape was found and in Buda there was one without any decoration. Oue piece can be dated back to the beginning of the 15

th century based on the rim of the foot of the bowl. It is a high quality, nice glass. Though it is different from foreign examples: the globular body is divided by fluting, not by ribs. The fluting was more popular in Hungary than the ribs. The fragment of a very small bowl was also found in among the finds. It is also a nice clear Venetian glass. This cup with fluting supports my theory that it was one specific workshop importing to Hungary that was different from the workshops exporting to Germany and Switzerland which adopted the needs and taste of this circle of customers and they traded with the popular types. Adaptation can be observed in the fact that they produced mainly the popular biconical bottles and they transported less from the thin-neck bottles ("Inghistere") favoured in Italy. It is only the shape of the bottle where the type preferred in Germany spread in hungary There are broken pieces of a tiny cup in our collection of finds. It reminds of our present-day liqueur glasses. (Fig.4 No. 6) A rim bent almost at right angles with the fragment of the side may be the fragment of a lamp made of Venetian-quality glass. (Fig. 6 No. 4) Among the Gothic glass finds coming from the rock-pit of grid 22-23 there was a small number of 13

th century fragments too. There were 3 rim-fragments and a piece of the side of a glass decorated by a glass-drop pulled out and hanging like a trunk. This type of decoration was characteristic of Frank glasses in the Migratioon period. It reached Hungary too, it was unearthed near to Buda in the village of Nyék, at the excavations of Sándor Garády. The only glass finds of rock-pit No. 21 were two other glass finds from the 13

th century, two necks of bottles with bulges. (Fig. 3 No. 2-2 and Fig. 2 No. 5) The foot of a 15

th century small biconical bottle was found in grid 25 at a depth of 2.30-260 metres. It is supposed to be Hungarian as its material has completely decayed. A similar foot was found in pit 26/a: a flask with its oval foot. The nodus of a chalice made of colourless glass and its bottom part were discovered in the infillment between grids 42-25. The surface has decayed. It comes from the first half of the 16

th century It belongs to type XV 16 in the Glass Catalogue. Rock-pit No. 40 contained glass finds only from the period of Turkish occupation. They are very much fragmentary, but the familiar types can be identified from the pieces. These pieces were found in Buda in the infilment by which the ruins after the siege had been levelled up and which was aboundant in mediaeval finds too. There was no mediaeval glass in this pit. Unfortunately it is impossible to make further specifications within the period of Turkish occupation. The finds of the pit are the following. A short chalice made of green glass. It is undecorated. A small jug made of brown glass. Neck and mouth fragment, it is embraced by a horizontal thread under the rim. It could have been a similar form to the small amber one found in the first courtyard of the palace in Buda, or the violet one found in Visegrád, or the small blue glass jug found in Sopron. Compared to foreign examples it can be dated to the 17

th century. Bottom of a one-handled beer mug made of green glass. Similar examples had been found in the yard of the palace of Buda, in the territory of the palace in Buda and in Hollókő. From the skirt of its bottom it can be dated to the beginning of the 17

th century Goblet made of green glass. The foot is characteristic, it is spindled of glass thread into a spiral. Referring to the similar goblet published by Béla Borsos it can be dated to the beginning of the 16

th century. Neck fragment of a bottle (Angster) made of green glass. Fragment of the bottom skirt of a pot with leaf-shaped transection - typical of the 16

th and 17

th centuries. Bottom part of a small green bottle. Oval bottom of a flask. Neck of a bottle (Angster) made of green glass. It is only the neck that survived. Half of the mouth part and the neck are decorated with diagonally twisted flutes. Neck of a similar bottle (Angster), the surface is covered in diagonally twisted flutes. Neck of a bottle (Angster) with smooth surface. 22