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in fairly frequent production and were a popular shape for glassworkers. The glass and its workmanship are generally of high quality , although some pieces exhibit serious flaws, which suggests that they were discarded before ever being used. Some have glass so thin that it could not support the weight of the ewer (EW 11) or so full of bubbles it would have made the ewer too delicate to use (EW 16 and 49). Others have deep striations which, although not seriously weakening the glass, made it unattractive (EW 34 and 14). One ewer (EW 43) has unfinished wheel-cut decoration, suggesting it broke before its decoration was finished. Because most of the ewers exhibit one or more of the types of decoration just described, decoration is used here as the criterion for dividing the ewers into groups; the decoration is of a consistently high quality. For the purpose of estimating the number of ewers on the wreck, any ewer mouth is cataloged as representing an entire ewer, regardless of how much of the body remains, because the mouth is the most characteristic feature of the ewers. These are all given EW numbers, with body, rim, and handle fragments that may belong to one of the numbered ewers listed separately so as to avoid misleading estimates of the quantity of ewers found on the wreck. Body fragments were easily identified by the changing curve of the body wall due to the egg shape of the body, and by the change in glass The Serçe Limanı wreck yielded the fragments of at least 50 ewers in its cargo of cullet, and one intact ewer was carried in the living space at the bow of the ship (Fig. 25-1). They are of a consistent shape, having a smooth bottom without a base, sometimes with a slight kick, above which is the egg-shaped body; the body narrows at the throat before flaring out to form a bowl-shaped mouth with a spouted lip. A long handle, with a fold near the top on which the thumb could rest, was applied for easy pouring. Possible prototypes for the Serçe Limanı ewers are found in glass ewers of the ninth and tenth centuries. By the time of the Serçe Limanı ewers (the early eleventh century), the shape was no doubt well known by the glassworkers of the Near East, as well as by rock-crystal carvers, many possibly working in Egypt or the Middle East. By the same time, elaborate cameo-cut ewers were being made, although it has not been conclusively proved whether they were produced in Egypt or Iran. Despite the consistency of the Serçe Limanı ewer shape, the ewer group contains a great variety of colors and sizes. Although most ewers (43 of 52) are yellow or amber, or yellowgreen , sometimes with purple swirls, there are two dark green ewers, two dark blue ewers (plus four dark blue ewer bottoms ), and one light aqua ewer. The ewers range in size from 6 to 20 cm tall overall, and even the glass thickness ranges by more than 2.4 mm. This variety suggests that the ewers were # C H A P T E R 25 Ewers Summer Kenesson 294 part vii: pouring vessels with handles EW 6. Ewer. Inv. No. GW 220. Not illustrated. N3, O6. Pres. h. 0.020; est. h. 0.06. Dark green; bottom has been identified, diam. 0.028. EW 7. Dark green; pres. h. 0.020; est. h. 0.06. EW 8. Ewer. Inv. No. GW 129. Fig. 25-2 (Mehmet Inhan). N3. Pres. h. 0.051; est. h. 0.10. Light yellow. EW 9. Light yellow; pres. h. 0.036; est. h. 0.09. M5, N3 or N4. EW 10. Light yellow with a purple swirl; pres. h. 0.061; est. h. 0.15. N3. EW 11. Amber; pres. h. 0.051; est. h. 0.13; large bubbles and striations palpable on outer surface. EW 12. Amber; pres. h. 0.068; est. h. 0.14; some stoning on inside surface of mouth below rim. N3, N6. EW 13. Light amber with faint purple swirls; pres. h. 0.070; est. h. 0.16. N4, P6. EW 14. Light purple-brown; pres. h. 0.066; est. h. 0.16. N4. EW 15. Light purple-brown; pres. h. 0.042; est. h. 0.09. EW 16. Aqua; pres. h. 0.037; est. h. 0.06. N6. Type IB. Free-Blown Ewers with Applied Decoration The...

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