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glass vessels. One intact mallet-shaped bottle was found inside a pithos near the bow of the ship, and two more were found at the bow. Ironically, although these intact bottles of both types are shown in situ on excavation plans, some are cataloged below as “provenience unknown.” Because they are among the glass vessels most worthy of display, being intact, they were at some point too zealously cleaned, making inked lot numbers of several unintelligible. Thus, in some cases, it is not possible to determine exactly on the plan which pinched-waist bottle or which mallet-shaped bottle is depicted. The anomalous site locations of occasional shards (i.e., some from DR 9, 13, 113, 117, 156, 284, and 285) are almost certainly due to miscopied lot numbers on the shards, as explained in chapter 2. The function of these disk-rim bottles is not known. They may have been used as carafes or flasks, possibly for serving liquids at mealtimes, although unlike the ewers and jugs their mouths are not really designed for pouring. Although mostly uniform in shape, some of the rims are thicker on one side than the other, and a few bulge in places, but such minor “flaws” have been removed from the catalogs below because they show only that the glassblowers were human and were not making bottles of highest quality. TYPE I: PINCHED-WAIST BOT TLE S The pinched-waist bottle has a straight, tapering neck and a flat, disk-shaped rim. The shoulder slopes away from the Among the wide variety of bottles recovered from the Serçe Limanı shipwreck are a group distinguished by discoid rims, sometimes called flange-rim flasks. Those with tapering necks can be divided into two major types, those with pinched waists and those often called “mallet-shaped” in the glass literature; these are reviewed in the first half of this chapter. There are several less common types, including large cylindrical bottles, a few very small bottles unlike all the others, and two bottles with exceptionally short necks; these are the subject of the chapter’s second section. For most of the two major types, the height of the neck is approximately the same as that of the body, the neck height averaging around 42–45 of the total height of the vessel. Pinch-Waist and Mallet-Shaped Bottles Carla Luna Cullen Including both fragmentary and intact bottles, an estimated total of 86 pinched-waist and 87 mallet-shaped bottles were recovered from the wreck. Of these, six of the pinched-waist and 20 of the mallet-shaped bottles were found intact. Also recovered were the remains of 104 bottles that may belong to either type; 29 of these were miniature bottles. The majority of the intact disk-rim bottles were found scattered around the stern of the wreck, in a living area of the ship, along with other intact # C H A P T E R 16 Disk-Rim Bottles Carla Luna Cullen and Berta Lledó 192 part vI: bottles rate bottle was a whole mouth, with either part of the neck or part of the rim attached, or both. Because of the similarities between mallet-shaped and pinched-waist bottles, a bottle was classified as pinched-waist if the shape of the body could be determined from the shoulders, or if the neck height or rim diameter of the piece fell into the specified range for pinched-waist bottles. Pinched-waist bottle rims (and all other disk-rim bottle rims) fall into five types on the basis of rim lip: straight lips, rounded lips, sloped lips, cut lips, and stepped lips. Straight lips are those in which the rim lip is flat and straight. Rounded lips have a slight curve. Most of the rims fall into one of these two categories. Sloped lips slant inward from the top to the bottom of the rim lip. Cut lips are those in which the lip has been abraded to form a somewhat sharp edge. Stepped lips have a small horizontal groove cut around their circumferences . In addition to these types, there are several rims with very thin lips. Some of the rims have not been placed in a category because they are too irregular, varying in thickness from one point to the other by up to 1 or 2 mm; some also have irregular bumps or bulges. The pinched-waist bottles are divided into two basic categories : undecorated and decorated, with decorated bottles further divided according to...

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