Dévai, Kata : Vessel glass from late Roman burials in Pannonia

Kata Dévai,
Vessel glass from late Roman burials in Pannonia 
(Dissertationes Pannonicae Ser. IV. Vol. 5)

Budapest 2025

ISBN 978-615-6388-51-3
ISBN 978-963-6464-9-74


464 S./pp., zahlr. Farb- und S/W-Abb./num. colour and b/w-figs., 28,5 x 20,2 cm; kartoniert/hardcover



This volume is an adaptation of the author’s PhD thesis, Vessel glass from the Late Roman burials of Pannonia, completed and defended in 2013. The glasses discussed and catalogued here are essentially based on the research conducted for the dissertation. One of the main goals of the author’s work was to create a new typological scheme for Pannonian vessel glass based on a meticulous study of form, colour, glass quality, ornamentation and the finer details of workmanship. 

The catalogue comprises almost a thousand glass vessels from the late Roman period in Pannonia. While it is hardly exhaustive, it does offer a representative picture of the period’s typical forms and of the role of glass vessels in the province during the late Roman period. Pannonia was an important glass-producing centre within the Roman Empire, reflected also in the blend of influences from both the western provinces and the Empire’s easterly regions. 

The principal goal of this volume and of the catalogue was to systematically review the glass types used in the fourth and fifth centuries, as well as their regional distribution. The vessel glass surveyed here offers important insights into the glass consumption of late Roman Pannonia and also sheds light on the differential use of glass on various settlement types: for example, different types were preferred in the military fortifications along the limes and in the settlements in the province’s interior. The spatial and chronological distribution of various glass types has also enabled the identification of certain workshops, alongside outlining the main trends in Pannonian glass production.