カット装飾皿

  • アケメネス朝ペルシア
  • 紀元前4世紀
  • ガラス
  • H-4.4 W-15.9

 わずかに緑色がかった透明なガラスで作られた皿。口縁部は外反し、低い側壁と丸い底部は明瞭な屈曲部で区切られる。鋳造された後、底部外面にカット装飾が施された。中央の小円の周りに16枚の細い花弁が配され、さらに外側に16枚の花弁が屈曲部まで広がる。アケメネス朝ペルシアで流行したフィアーレ形と呼ばれる金属製皿の形式を模倣したものであり、手の込んだ贅沢な容器がガラスでも作られていたことを示している。側壁のおよそ半分は後補である(註)。

註:Axel von Saldern, "Glass Finds at Gordion", Journal of Glass Studies, Vol. 1, Corning, 1959, p. 42, fig. 29.

Catalogue Entry

This dish was created from translucent glass with the slightest greenish tinge. The mouth edge is bent outward, the sides are short and there is a clearly delineated curving line which separates the walls from the round base. After the plate was cast the outer walls of the base were decorated with cut designs. A small circle in the center is surrounded by 16 narrow petals, and then a further 16 petals extend to the curved edge. This plate imitates the metallic plate shape known as a phiale which was popular in Achaemenid Persia, and this shows that expensive vessels that were luxurious and elaborate were also created in glass. Approximately half of the wall surface is a later repair1).

1)?\?\?\Published in Axel von Saldern, "Glass Finds at Gordion," Journal of Glass Studies, Vol. 1, Corning, 1959, p. 42, fig. 29.