To me, "let the buyer be remembered,' sounds like Ennion possibly telling the buyer not to be cautious or superstitious about drinking from a cup with a name other than the drinker's, and also apologizing that the owner's name could not be applied ex post facto.
Interesting lecture, thanks. About the technique, it was mentioned by Karol that there were no punty marks. Does this mean they had not invented it yet? Or did they prefer to not use them.
***** Sorry for the delay in this response. We passed on your question to Karol Wight and here is what she said: The answer to your question is complicated. We do have punty marks on free-blown glass of the first century but not on mold-blown of the same time period. The glass makers must have preferred not to use a punty for mold-blown and used some other tool (as Mark Taylor does in the new video) to hold the glass while finishing rims and adding handles. A lot of mold-blown vessels are drinking cups whose rims were cracked off, so they didn't need to be puntied. But there are an equal number of perfume flasks with finished rims and handles, so a grabbing or clasping tool was used in their manufacture.
It looks like they used some kind of gadget tool to carry the pieces after the mould - very simple to make in a wooden pole with some looped wire tied on with leather
To me, "let the buyer be remembered,' sounds like Ennion possibly telling the buyer not to be cautious or superstitious about drinking from a cup with a name other than the drinker's, and also apologizing that the owner's name could not be applied ex post facto.
The knobbed vessels were probably designed to catch the sediment in the beer so you didn't drink it.
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Interesting lecture, thanks.
About the technique, it was mentioned by Karol that there were no punty marks. Does this mean they had not invented it yet? Or did they prefer to not use them.
***** Sorry for the delay in this response. We passed on your question to Karol Wight and here is what she said:
The answer to your question is complicated. We do have punty marks on free-blown glass of the first century but not on mold-blown of the same time period. The glass makers must have preferred not to use a punty for mold-blown and used some other tool (as Mark Taylor does in the new video) to hold the glass while finishing rims and adding handles. A lot of mold-blown vessels are drinking cups whose rims were cracked off, so they didn't need to be puntied. But there are an equal number of perfume flasks with finished rims and handles, so a grabbing or clasping tool was used in their manufacture.
Thanks for the answer.
It is very interesting to read that we cannot fully determine (yet) what type of tool/method they used!
regards,
Ramon
It looks like they used some kind of gadget tool to carry the pieces after the mould - very simple to make in a wooden pole with some looped wire tied on with leather