Wint Hill Group

Glass bowl from the Wint-Hill group with a carved image of Adam and Eve (4th century). Krefeld-Gellep , grave 2711

Depiction of a boar hunt. Roman-Germanic Museum Cologne

The Wint Hill Group (English Wint Hill Group ) is a group of late antique glass vessels with ornaments torn from the outside.

Name of the group

The British archaeologist Donald B. Harden summarized the glass vessels of this group . It is named after fragments of a bowl depicting a hare hunt in Wint Hill, Banwell, Somerset . Several specimens were already known, most of which come from the Rhineland . After the spread, a production in the Rhineland seems likely.

Ornaments

Hare hunting bowl from Mayen . The toast vivas cum tuis (live with yourselves) can be read from the inside

The decorations on the vessels were torn into the glass from the outside with a hard object, perhaps a flint . The motifs include depictions of hunting, scenes from ancient mythology, and Christian themes. Some, but not all, of the vessels are also provided with toasts.

use

The incised inscriptions prove that the bowls and cups served as drinking vessels by the Wint-Hill group. Fragments from settlement finds prove that they were also used in everyday life. The majority of the finds come from graves, where she served as grave goods were deposited along with other vessels in the food and drink offerings.

literature

• Donald B. Harden: The Wint Hill Hunting Bowl and Related Glasses. In: Journal of Glass Studies 2, 1960, pp. 44-81.

Web links

Details of the Wint Hill bowl in the Ashmolean Museum