10 – Glassware from Kota Cina

The Kota Cina 2011–2016 excavations yielded a little more than 1,000 shards of glassware in eight of the nine sectors. However, the mean density per cubic metre reveals an uneven distribu­tion. Body shards are by far the most numerous, accounting for three quarters of the total, while undecorated free-blown glassware is vastly predominant (92% of the whole corpus). Among the 75 decorated shards, the most numerous (48%) are wheel-cut or engraved shards, followed by moulded and two-coloured shards. Colourless shards slightly supersede green shards. A fourth element used to characterise the corpus of Kota Cina is the shard thickness. More than 1,300 measurements have been taken, with thickness fluctuating between less than 1 mm and 14 mm. The existence of twelve shapes is suggested, including bowls, beakers (or goblets), bottles, jar­lets, flasks and one oil lamp. Other wares include notably three bangle fragments and 292 beads.