foreword i Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Mediterranean Antiquities 1. The Ancient Glass Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, La collection des antiquités méditerranéennes 1. La verrerie antique ccaarroonn__vvrrww..iinndddd ii 2255--33--22000088 1155::4488::4466 ii foreword Monumenta Graeca et Romana Editor-in-Chief John M. Fossey FRSC (McGill University) Associate Editor Angelo Geissen (University of Cologne) Advisory Board Christiane Delplace (CNRS, France) Christine Kondoleon (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Nota Kourou (University of Athens) Michael Vickers (University of Oxford) VOLUME 13 ccaarroonn__vvrrww..iinndddd iiii 2255--33--22000088 1155::4488::4466 foreword iii Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Mediterranean Antiquities Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, La collection des antiquités méditerranéennes Volume 1 The Ancient Glass La verrerie antique By/Par Beaudoin Caron D ès L Université de Montréal †Eléni P. Zoïtopoúlou Lic Phil Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montréal Illustrations Renée A. Bouchard MA LEIDEN (cid:129) BOSTON 2008 ccaarroonn__vvrrww..iinndddd iiiiii 2255--33--22000088 1155::4488::4466 iv foreword Illustration on the cover/Illustration sur la couverture: Grape-cluster vase/Vase en grappe de raisins. 3rd c. C.E./IIIème s. de n. è. (Cat. no. 92 - 2004.214). This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication data Caron, Beaudoin. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, collection of Mediterranean antiquities / by Beaudoin Caron, Eléni P. Zoïtopoúlou ; illustrations, Renée A. Bouchard = Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, collection des antiquités méditerranéennes / par Beaudoin Caron, Eléni P. Zoïtopoúlou ; illustrations, Renée A. Bouchard. v. cm. — (Monumenta Graeca et Romana, ISSN 0169-8850 ; v. 13) English and French. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: v. 1. The ancient glass ISBN 978-90-04-16193-1 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Classical antiquities—Catalogs. 2. Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal—Catalogs. I. Zoïtopoúlou, Eléni P. II. Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. III. Title. IV. Title: Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, collection des antiquités méditerranéennes. DE46.5.M66C37 2008 930.074’71428—dc22 2008008773 ISSN 0169-8850 ISBN 978 90 04 16193 1 Copyright 2008 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands ccaarroonn__vvrrww..iinndddd iivv 2255--33--22000088 1155::4488::4466 foreword v TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE DES MATIÈRES vii iii 1. Preface – Préface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , v ix xi 2. Foreword – Avant-propos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , xiii xxv 3. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , xxxvii 4. Bibliography and abbreviations – Bibliographie et abréviations . . . . . . . 5. Catalogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 6. Index of donors – Index des donateurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 7. Concordance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 8. Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 ccaarroonn__vvrrww..iinndddd vv 1199--33--22000088 88::2200::3399 vi foreword ccaarroonn__vvrrww..iinndddd vvii 1199--33--22000088 88::2200::3399 foreword vii PREFACE It is a great pleasure to introduce this first volume in a projected series of catalogues raisonnés cov- ering material in the museum’s permanent collection of antiquities. In the last few years, since the appointment of Professor John M. Fossey as Curator of Archaeology, the section of Mediterranean Archaeology has undergone considerable development with new acquisitions, long-term loans and re-assessment of the previously existing material. The first tangible result was the opening in Feb- ruary 2004 of a new gallery of specifically Mediterranean Archaeology simultaneously with the opening of a visiting exhibition in the same field “Tanagra, the small world of clay”. Develop- ments have proceeded at such a rate that a new version of the gallery is currently in planning for the immediate future. For a long time before these recent developments, however, the collection of ancient glass was a principal focus within the Mediterranean Archaeology collection and it is ap- propriate that the first volume of the catalogues raisonnés should focus on this. In all his work at the museum since Autumn 2000 John Fossey has been able to gather around him colleagues and friends with various specialities within the broader field of the ancient Medi- terranean. The two co-authors of this volume are excellent examples of this approach. Dr. Beau- doin Caron was, many years ago, briefly a student of John’s and has been his colleague and close collaborator for a decade while teaching Classical Archaeology at the Université de Montréal. The late Mme Eléni P. Zoïtopoúlou was John’s wife, a professional archaeologist herself, who served as consultant in Mediterranean Archaeology since her husband’s appointment to the museum. Eléni died shortly before the final touches were put to the book but, with the help of Beaudoin Caron, John has been able to bring the work to completion in the MGR series of which he is the Editor- in-Chief. For John Fossey the completion of this volume has been an important testimonial to the work of his late wife. At the museum we all rejoice in the appearance of this memorial to our lost col- league and we look forward to the appearance of further volumes in the series, in some of which we shall undoubtedly see incorporated notes and information which she contributed over the years to the files for which her husband is responsible. In this way her work will always be with us, in a form which would surely have given her much personal satisfaction and pleasure. Nathalie Bondil Director Montréal Museum of Fine Arts ccaarroonn__vvrrww..iinndddd vviiii 1199--33--22000088 88::2200::3399 viii préface PRÉFACE Il m’est très agréable de préfacer ce premier volume d’une série de catalogues raisonnés qui visent à publier les antiquités de la collection permanente du musée. Au cours des dernières années, depuis l’arrivée au musée du professeur John Fossey, les collections d’archéologie méditerranéennes se sont considérablement enrichies grâce à de nouvelles acquisitions, des prêts à long terme et une rééva- luation en profondeur de la collection déjà assemblée. Le premier résultat tangible a été l’ouvertu- re en février 2004 de la nouvelle galerie consacrée à l’archéologie méditerranéenne, ouverture qui coïncidait avec l’inauguration d’une exposition temporaire: “Tanagra, le petit peuple d’argile”. Il fallait cependant que le premier catalogue soit consacré à la verrerie ancienne, qui a toujours été la principale composante de la collection d’antiquités. Depuis son arrivée au musée à l’automne 2000, John Fossey a su s’entourer de collègues actifs dans différents domaines de recherche en archéologie classique. Les deux co-auteurs de ce cata- logue en font partie. Beaudoin Caron fut brièvement, il y a plusieurs années, un de ses étudiants et après son arrivée à l’Université de Montréal, un collègue et un collaborateur. Feue Eléni Zoïto- poúlou était l’épouse de John, elle-même archéologue de carrière et consultante en archéologie mé- diterranéenne au Musée depuis la nomination de son mari. Elle est décédée alors que le livre était presque terminé mais, avec l’aide de Beaudoin Caron, John a pu achever l’ouvrage pour la série MGR dont il est le directeur. Publier ce volume a été pour John Fossey une façon de rendre témoignage aux travaux et à l’activité de son épouse, notre collègue disparue. Nous nous réjouissons au musée de sa parution et de celle à venir des autres volumes de la série où seront incorporées les notes et les informations de toutes sortes qu’Eléni a fournies pour enrichir les dossiers dont son mari avait la responsabilité. C’est ainsi, par son travail, qu’elle perpétuera son souvenir parmi nous et c’est ainsi qu’elle aurait voulu qu’on se souvienne d’elle. Nathalie Bondil Directrice Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal ccaarroonn__vvrrww..iinndddd vviiiiii 1199--33--22000088 88::2200::3399 foreword ix FOREWORD The Montréal Museum of Fine Arts has long had a collection of Mediterranean Antiquities but, without a professional archaeologist to curate it, this collection’s development was somewhat spo- radic, the product of occasional, sometimes quite important donations and of other acquisitions by purchase when a particularly interesting opportunity presented itself. When appointed in 2000 as the very first Curator of Archaeology at the Museum I had two principal intentions where the permanent collection was concerned: to make available to the public both by exhibition and by publication the existing collection and to enrich it as far as might be consistent with international legal instruments and national legislations. These were, of course, two of the fundamental parts of the mandate that the Museum and its then Director, Dr. Guy Cogeval, gave me. It was soon evident that a particular focus of the permanent collection was its holdings in ancient glass. Accordingly from the very start of my time at the Museum, my late wife (Eléni P. Zoïtopoúlou), herself a specialist in Greek and Roman Archaeology, undertook the study of this glass collection and recommended important related bibliographic material for addition to the Mu- seum’s library. When she was already many months advanced on this project we learned that our colleague, Dr. Beaudoin Caron, now teaching Classical Archaeology at the Université de Montréal, had some years earlier, as part of his graduate studies in museology, drawn up a draft catalogue of a good part of the collection. It was obvious that the two efforts should be combined and accord- ingly we began to work together as a team, to which was added Renée Bouchard, then a student at Concordia University and now a doctoral student at the Université de Montréal; her drafting skills produced the drawings necessary to illustrate some of the more ornate pieces in the glass collec- tion. It was a more than happy coincidence that Renée was working on Romano-British glass for her own thesis subject. The four of us, in different combinations and on different occasions, thus spent many hours during the summer of 2002 re-recording and drawing the material presented in this volume. To the pieces already covered in Beaudoin Caron’s preliminary catalogue we were able to add others that had been separately inventoried and yet others that had come from recent donations. The catalogue here published thus contains all the Museum’s holdings up to late 2004; it must, however, be noted that we have not considered the Museum’s Islamic glass objects as be- longing in the category of “ancient”. Clearly Beaudoin Caron, an internationally recognized scholar in the field of ancient glass stud- ies, has been the driving force behind the whole project and the rest of us have learned much from him during our working sessions and subsequent discussions. It is also thanks to his efforts that the expenses of completing the photographic cover of the material were underwritten by a grant from his institution, the Université de Montréal (Faculté des Arts et des Sciences), to which we express our warmest thanks. It is also Beaudoin Caron who has kept me going with this project in the months following my wife’s premature death; she would be happy to know that the work was completed but did not live long enough to see it although only months before her death, while already in hospital, she was reading and correcting whole parts of the catalogue text. After the grant from the Université de Montréal was obtained the photographing and printing was carried out by Christine Guest and we are grateful to her and the other colleagues in the Mu- seum’s photographic service for their constant interest in our project and their ever-ready collab- ccaarroonn__vvrrww..iinndddd iixx 1111--33--22000088 1122::0033::5511