PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Blažková, Gabriela
AU  - Křížová, Šárka
TI  - Early postmedieval and postmedieval glass finds from two waste pits from the inner court yard of the Salm Palace in Prague
DP  - 2020 Dec 15
TA  - Staletá Praha
PG  - 95--119
VI  - 36
IP  - 2
AID - 10.56112/sp.2020.2.05
IS  - 02316056
AB  - This study presents the analysis of glass artefacts found in two waste pits at the inner courtyard of the Salm Palace in Prague Hradčany. The pits, however, were used by the residents of the neighbouring Schwarzenberg Palace. Both glass assemblages were analysed from an archaeological and archaeometric point of view. This study confirms great significance and importance of such interdisciplinary cooperation. Chemical analysis of 35 samples showed a clear predominance of potassium glass. Sodium-ash glass is represented only by a goblet fragment with a mascaron-shaped knop and by a glass button. Although both studied assemblages are of a similar, more or less identical date - from the second half of the 17th century to the 18th century, morphologically they perform certain diversity. Both table, window and especially container glass was identified. The unique finds include fragments of a mirror and a richly decorated glass button.