KM058 (Early Roman Western Asia Minor(?) glass large flask) [ permalink ] Type
Inventoried Object
Material description
Semitransparent, light bluish green (PMS 324). Very few small, spherical bubbles.
Technique
Free-blown. Blowing spirals. Faint striations on top from polishing.
Logical part of
Inventoried Objects from the Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila
Typological identification
Glass Free-Blown Flask or Jug
Typological identification comment
Possibly aryballos cf. Isings1957 Form 61; more likely early spherical flask cf. Isings1957 Form 70
Comparanda
sim. AkatFiratli1984 , p. 33, no. 245, picture 107 (Hüseyin Kocabaş Collection, Istanbul; from Çalıköy near Bursa, 2nd century)
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sim. Antonaras2012 , pp. 183, 333, no. 264 (Princeton; from Syria, “probably” made in Asia Minor, 1st–2nd century)
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sim. Bucovala1968 , pp. 86-87, no. 144 (Tomis [Constanța], Romania)
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sim. Canav1985 , p. 65, no. 95 (Türkiye Şişe Collection, Istanbul)
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sim. Gerousi2002 , pp. 136-137, fig. 6, diagram 3 (Thera, 2nd-early 3rd century)
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sim. Hayes1975 , pp. 58-59, no. 146 (ROM; “probably” mid-late 2nd century; citing example from Ödemiş, İzmir Province)
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sim. Kern1954b (Rijksmuseum, Leiden; from Greece, possibly islands)
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sim. Kunina1997 , p. 297, nos. 214-216, ills. 131, 132 (Hermitage; from Panticapaeum, eastern Mediterranean product, second half 1st century CE)
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sim. LaBaumeSalomonson1976 , pp. 44-45, no. 109, pl. 13:3 (Sammlung Löffler, Cologne; 2nd century)
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sim. Lightfoot1989 , pp. 23, 28, no. 15, fig. 1:4 (Afyon Müzesi; from Anıtkaya near Afyonkarahisar, 2nd century)
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sim. Loeschcke1911 , p. 62, no. 1061, pl. LII (Sammlung Niessen, Cologne)
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sim. Ozet2000 , p. 106, no. 66 (Bodrum Müzesi; from Marmaris, 2nd century)
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sim. Papageorgiou2014 , pp. 225-226, 422, 424, no. 94 (similar color and material; Patras, mid-1st-early 2nd century)
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sim. SamothraceXI , pp. 1117-1118, no. W2-1 (E. Dusinbery; third quarter 1st century CE)
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sim. TheraII , p. 18, Grab 16.c, fig. 17:c (H. Dragendorff; “aus weißem Glass”)
Comparanda
sim. Thomas1976 , p. 28, no. 110 (Bomford Collection, Bristol; from eastern Mediterranean)
Comparanda
sim. Vessberg1952 , pp. 131-132, pls. VII:10, XVI:2=SwCyprusExIV.3 , pp. 154, 160, figs. 48:10, 58:2 (Flask A.I.α.2; Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen; from Cyprus)
Comparanda
sim. Vessberg1953b , pp. 166-167, pl. 58 (Cyprus Museum; from Limassol, dated late 2nd-early 3rd century)
Description
Large flask. Thick wall. Vertical rim folded down, up, and out and flattened to create collar rim with sharp, horizontal lip and interior groove. Short cylindrical to conical neck widens in middle but constricts at shoulder. Widely spreading upper body: globular. No handle.
Preservation description
One large fragment preserves entire rim and neck to shoulder. Slight chipping.
Published as
Papageorgiouetal2022 , pp. 961-962, 1026-1027, no. 638, fig. 20.23
Preserved height
0.064
Estimated rim diameter
0.071
Has geographic origin
Asia Minor
Belongs to Historical Period
Early Roman (Historical Period)
Material
Glass (Material)
Drawing
Photograph
