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Glass Artifacts

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	The Serçe Liman1 "Glass Wreck" carried an immense quantity of glass cullet and glass objects: between half a million and a million shards of broken glassware belonging to between 10,000 and 20,000 vessels of more than 200 distinctly different shapes. Of this collection, only 80 or so vessel were recovered intact, two of which can be seen here. (slide# GW-479) Photo: INA.		An archaeologist raising an intact glass bottle. (slide# GW-652) Photo: INA.
	Archaeologist Jay Rosloff chiseling free individual glass sherds from a large glass concretion. (slide# GW-1483) Photo: INA.		Once the glass fragments were separated, they were sorted in the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology. (slide# GW-1673) Photo: INA.
	With piles of sorted glass fragments in front of him, George Bass is seen here working on the next stage of the reconstruction process: looking for matching sherds among a group of similarly colored glass sherds. (slide# GW-1586) Photo: INA.		One of INA's Turkish conservators trying to reconstruct a blue glass vessel. (slide# GW-1608) Photo: INA.
	Several INA personnel in the Bodrum Museum are here  reconstructing glass vessels from the millions of glass fragments. (slide# GW-1645) Photo: INA.		An emerald green glass chunk. This piece was one of over two tons of raw glass recovered from the Serçe Liman1 shipwreck. (slide# GW-1312) Photo: INA.
	A group of raw glass chunks of a variety of colors. (slide# GW-1321) Photo: INA.		Some of the raw glass fragments, indicating the variety of colored glass found on the shipwreck. (slide# GW-1327) Photo: INA.
	The glass fragments were mostly likely carried onboard the ship in wicker baskets similar to this modern basket. (slide# GW-1393) Photo: INA.		Bowls in various sizes and shapes are numerous. Some are entirely plain or simply have thread-decorated rims, but most have mold-blown decoration, including dimple, honeycomb, vegetal, and diamond patterns.  (slide# GW-1046) Photo: INA.
	An example of the mold-blown type of glass bowl after reconstruction. (slide# GW-1064) Photo: INA.		Another mold-blown glass bowl with relief decoration. (slide# GW-1066) Photo: INA.
	Small mold-blown glass bowls. (slide# GW-1113) Photo: INA.		Ring-footed bowls (left) occur in a variety of shapes. There are quite a number of basket-shaped bowls(right) with broad, horizontal rims, some plain but most with mold-blown decoration. (slide# GW-1109) Photo: INA.
	A drawing of a basket-shaped bowl. (slide# GW-1230) Photo: INA.		Another basket-shaped bowl. (slide# GW-501.9) Photo: INA.
	A reconstructed red colored glass bowl. (slide# GW-1795) Photo: INA.		A small reconstructed  bowl, showing the temporary tape strips and clips holding the fragments in place prior to gluing. (slide# GW-993) Photo: INA.
	Two plain glass plates after reconstruction. (slide# GW-1074) Photo: INA.		A mosque lamp with handles for suspension chains. (slide# GW-1010) Photo: INA.
	A sample of the various divers glass vessels from the shipwreck. (slide# GW-1142) Photo: INA.		Some of the various types of mold-blown glass bottles from the shipwreck. (slide# GW-1165) Photo: INA.