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Figure 4: Bowlwiith Carinated Walls Made of Deep Green Glass (photo by Monika Petrović, 2025)

man glass industry and used almost exclusively V and VI are dated to the period of cca 25–15 BC
for this group of glassware. to cca 40–45 AD, carinated bowls, pyxides and
The plate (pl. 1, 1) with carinated walls can a bowl with an out-turned rim are represented
be compared with the finds from Slovenia as in these strata (Grose 2017, 81, pl. 8, 134, 136–7,
form 1.1.4. (Lazar 2025, 56, fig. 29). The bowl 139; 9, 154). Vessels presented in deposits VII and
with carinated walls (pl. 1, 2) represents form VIII (before cca 50–55 AD) prove the produc-
Isings 2 or form 2.1.11. known from Romula tion of these glass vessels until the mid-1st centu-
in Slovenia (Lazar 2025, 58, fig. 30), where this ry or even later, but not after the last quarter of
group of glasses is represented with numerous the 1 century (Grose 2017, 82). Selected Glass Finds from Apsorus (Osor) – Reflection of Wealth and Prestige
st
forms and examples. In the second half of the 1st century, de-
The comparisons from well-dated sites are mand and taste for fine glassware dramatically
known from Magdalensberg (Czurda-Ruth changed. Intense colours were forgotten, and the
1979, 65–91), where fragments presumably date desire for something new and different arose –
before 45 AD when the site was abandoned, a group of elegant tableware made of colourless
with few examples attributed to the late Au- glass appeared on the market, often decorated
gustan level (1979, 70–1). In Vindonissa, finds with cut faceted decoration, which further em-
are concentrated in Tiberian and early Claudi- phasised the quality of glass and of the glassmak-
an contexts, some continuing into the Neroni- er’s work. Therefore, in the Flavian period, the
an period (Berger 1960, 24–30). Some fragments coloured fine ware was replaced by a new group
are also known from Salona (Buljević 2016, 64). of tableware, made of decolourised glass.
At Cosa, dated examples come from five de- In the Osor Museum collection, the new
posits (Grose 2017, 81). The earliest is deposit IV group of tableware is represented with a shallow
(before 25–15 BC) associated with the Augustan footed bowl with a wide, overhanging rim (fig.
reoccupation of the town. They can represent 5). The bowl is completely preserved, undecorat-
some of the earliest products of the Roman glass ed and made of high-quality decolourised glass
industry, or they were imported from the east- (pl. 1, 3). Its form can be compared to the finds
ern Mediterranean (Grose 2017, 81–2). Deposits from Slovenia (Lazar 2003, 42; 2025, 68, cat. no