I reperti in vetro dal sito di Ad Novas (Cesenatico). Dati preliminari

In April 2006, the University of Leicester (UK), in collaboration with the Museo della Marineria of Cesenatico and the Soprintendenza ai Beni Archeologici dell’Emilia-Romagna carried out a pilot project, consisting in the opening of four test pits at the site of Ca’ Bufalini, with the aim of establishing the role of Cesenatico in the Adriatic sea. In this paper will be presented the glass finds recovered during the campaign 2006 and from the Trench 20, excavated in 2011. The main forms identified are dating from the 4th to the 6th century AD and belong at few typologies of beakers (like types Isings 96, 106 and 109) and bowls (especially Isings 117 and some others typologies with rim refolded toward the outside). Few fragments are also identified like lamps Isings 134 and only one element can be associated at the wineglass form Foy 23 (6th – 7th century AD). Some fragments are also identified like a few typologies of bowls, bottles and unguentaria from the Roman period. All of the finds are characterized by a high fragmentation and the glass matrix is colourless, with light blue and green tones, and the presence of many air bubbles and lines of blowing. All of these elements can be associated at a very common production. From Ad Novas were recovered also a prismatic blue opaque bead with diamonds, a typical production from the Danube area from the Roman period to the 4th century, and a “trilobitenperlen”, probably produced in Reatia or in Noricum between the 3rd and the 4th century AD.