KM144 (Early Roman Northern Italian Glass Beaker) [permalink]

Type

Inventoried Object

Material description

Translucent, light bluish green (PMS 318). No impurities.

Technique

Free-blown. Blowing spirals. Striations on bottom from polishing.

Logical part of

Greek-American Excavations at Koutsongila Inventoried Objects

Typological identification

Glass Free-Blown Beaker

Typological identification comment

Isings1957 Form 34

Comparanda

cf. CorinthXII, pp. 78, 81, 100–101, no. 637, fig. 8 (G. D. Weinberg; from behind South Stoa, 1st century CE)

Comparanda

cf. Dusenbery1967, pp. 46–47, no. 41, fig. 41=SamothraceXI, pp. 1084–1085, no. S212-B

Comparanda

cf. Haevernick1981, pp. 124, 127, no. V2393, pl. 41:6 (Kabeiroi, Thebes)

Comparanda

cf. PriceCottam2000, p. 59 (Mytilene)

Description

Beaker. Conical to slightly convex lower body tapering to base. Solid pad base with thin, rounded edge tooled out horizontally and high, domed floor. Northern Italian product.

Preservation description

One fragment preserves small part of lower body and >50% of base. Extensive abrasion and extensive pitting; moderate to extensive dulling.

Published as

Papageorgiouetal2022, pp. 956-957, 1021-1022, 1023, no. 620, fig. 20.12

Estimated base diameter

0.041

Maximum preserved dimension

0.042

Preserved height

0.01

Chronology comment

Second half 1st-early 2nd century

Explanation of deposition

Residual.

Has geographic origin

Italy

Material

Glass (Material)

In Excavated Unit

Locus TRA07010203-001

Location in unit

Topsoil over south slope.

Drawing

Photograph