Page 83 - Lazar, Irena. 2022. Pogled skozi steklo / A Look Through the Glass. Koper: Založba Univerze na Primorskem. Libri universitatis hereditati, 1
P. 83
ure 35: Fragment of a beaker signed by Ennion, drawing Anđelka Fortuna Saje. ennion beaker and other fr agments of mould-blow n glass 83
Slika 35: Odlomek čaše s podpisom Enniona, risba Anđelka Fortuna Saje.
cles and a part of a star (?) and can be defined decoration, the inscription within the square
as a Near Eastern style of decoration (Light- frame, and other details are absolutely identical.
foot 2015, 36, fig. 26; Lehrer 1979, Pl. VI: 2). In
the centre, inside a square frame, there is the in- This can be concluded from the position of
scription in Greek MNHΘH OAΓO PAZΩN the letters on the inscription MNE…/ OAΓOP /
(mnesthe ho agorazon – Let the buyer be remem- AZΩN; we can observe that the letter ‚N‘ is po-
bered!). The second inscription panel ENNI / sitioned above the letter ‚Ω‘ (ω) in the third line
ΩNEΠ / OIHCE N (Ennion made me), which and not in the fourth as on other beakers from
we can presuppose on the basis of the analogies, this group, like the one from Narona in Croatia
is not preserved. (Buljević 2015, 61, fig. 50: 1). This points to slight
differences in the moulds for the same beak-
The preserved inscription is of type J, to- er type and shows that certainly several moulds
gether with the decoration (Lightfoot 2015, 28), existed since these differences could have come
allows comparing this beaker with a beaker of about during the renewing or remodelling of a
greenish glass found in Soluntum (Solanto) It- mould or the production of a new one. Chron-
aly (now Palermo Museum in Sicily) (De Bellis ologically, one-handled beakers belong to the
2004, 129–33, figs. 6, 8) and with a beaker from second quarter of the 1st century. The rare finds
The Shlomo Moussaieff Collection (Lightfoot from dated contexts occur in the late Tiberian or
2015, 92). These completely preserved one-han- Claudian strata (Lightfoot 2015, 26; Price 1991a,
dled beakers were blown into a mould with the 65). The Romula find comes from the strata with
same pattern as the one from Ribnica, since the archaeological material dated around the mid-
Slika 35: Odlomek čaše s podpisom Enniona, risba Anđelka Fortuna Saje.
cles and a part of a star (?) and can be defined decoration, the inscription within the square
as a Near Eastern style of decoration (Light- frame, and other details are absolutely identical.
foot 2015, 36, fig. 26; Lehrer 1979, Pl. VI: 2). In
the centre, inside a square frame, there is the in- This can be concluded from the position of
scription in Greek MNHΘH OAΓO PAZΩN the letters on the inscription MNE…/ OAΓOP /
(mnesthe ho agorazon – Let the buyer be remem- AZΩN; we can observe that the letter ‚N‘ is po-
bered!). The second inscription panel ENNI / sitioned above the letter ‚Ω‘ (ω) in the third line
ΩNEΠ / OIHCE N (Ennion made me), which and not in the fourth as on other beakers from
we can presuppose on the basis of the analogies, this group, like the one from Narona in Croatia
is not preserved. (Buljević 2015, 61, fig. 50: 1). This points to slight
differences in the moulds for the same beak-
The preserved inscription is of type J, to- er type and shows that certainly several moulds
gether with the decoration (Lightfoot 2015, 28), existed since these differences could have come
allows comparing this beaker with a beaker of about during the renewing or remodelling of a
greenish glass found in Soluntum (Solanto) It- mould or the production of a new one. Chron-
aly (now Palermo Museum in Sicily) (De Bellis ologically, one-handled beakers belong to the
2004, 129–33, figs. 6, 8) and with a beaker from second quarter of the 1st century. The rare finds
The Shlomo Moussaieff Collection (Lightfoot from dated contexts occur in the late Tiberian or
2015, 92). These completely preserved one-han- Claudian strata (Lightfoot 2015, 26; Price 1991a,
dled beakers were blown into a mould with the 65). The Romula find comes from the strata with
same pattern as the one from Ribnica, since the archaeological material dated around the mid-
