Glass Finds from the Monastery at Olba

Year 2019, Issue: 22, 345 - 362, 11.10.2019

Ayşe Emel Erten , Emine Akkuş

Abstract

The majority of the glass finds discovered during
the excavations at the monastery of Olba
consists of fragments belonging to lamps, goblets,
and window panes that indicate the use
of glass for illumination. In addition to these,
fragments of bowls, plates, jars, or flasks were
also recorded. As almost all the glass fragments
were found within the earth fill, it is not possible
to build a chronology through stratigraphy.
The only location that gives numismatic evidence
for dating is the stone basin. The densely
corroded coins from the basin suggest a date
starting from the sixth century AD. The overall
study of the archaeological evidence from the
monastery, as well as the typological research
into the glass material, reveal that the glass
finds belong to a period starting from the fifth
century and ending in the seventh century AD.

Keywords

Rough Cilicia, Monastery of Olba, Late Antique Glass, Glass Lamps, Glass Goblets, Window Glass

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